AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND AMONG KIT DIGITAL, INC., DEALAPPS CORPORATION, KICKAPPS CORPORATION, AND WITH RESPECT TO ARTICLES II, VII, VIII AND IX ONLY
Exhibit
2.1
BY
AND AMONG
DEALAPPS
CORPORATION,
KICKAPPS
CORPORATION,
AND
WITH RESPECT TO ARTICLES II, VII, VIII AND IX ONLY
XXXXXX
X. XXXXXX AS STOCKHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE
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This
Agreement and Plan of Merger (this “Agreement”) is
entered into as of January 27, 2011 by and among KIT digital, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“KIT”), DealApps
Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of KIT (“Merger Sub”),
KickApps Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and with
respect to Articles II, VII, VIII and IX, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, as stockholder
representative (in such capacity, the “Stockholder
Representative”).
RECITALS
A. The
Company, headquartered in New York, New York, hosts software as a service
platform (SaaS) providing a range of social media applications to website
developers and publishers that accelerate deployment of more sophisticated and
feature-rich applications such as social networking, user-generated content,
media management and sharing, social marketing solutions, employee social
communication, profiles, premium video players, webcam applications and
widgets (the “Business”) and the
Company owns certain assets used in the conduct and operation of the
Business.
B. The
Persons listed on Schedule 3.16 are the owners of all of
the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company (each, a “Stockholder” and
collectively, the “Stockholders”).
C.
Each of the Board of Directors of Merger Sub, KIT and the Company have
determined that it is in the respective best interests of Merger Sub and the
Company for Merger Sub to acquire the Company through the merger of Merger Sub
with and into the Company upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, and in furtherance hereof have approved the Merger.
D.
The parties intend for the Merger (as defined below) to be a
tax-free reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Code and for this Agreement
to constitute a plan of reorganization within the meaning of Section 368 of the
Code.
E. Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in
Article I of this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
In
consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants, representations,
warranties, and agreements contained in this Agreement and for other valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
1.1
“Accounting
Principles” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.6(a).
1.2
“Affiliate” means, as
applied to any Person, (i) any entity controlling, controlled by or under common
control with such Person, (ii) any other Person that owns or controls 10% or
more of any class of equity securities (including equity securities issuable
upon the exercise of any option or convertible security) of that Person or any
of its Affiliates or (iii) any director, partner, officer, manager, agent,
employee or relative of such Person. For purposes of the definition
of Affiliate, “control” (including with correlative meanings, the terms
“controlling”, “controlled by”, and “under common control with”) as applied to
any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether
through ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise.
1.3
“Agreement” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble.
1.4
“Available Excess” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
8.8.
1.5
“Business” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals.
1.6
“Business Day” shall
mean each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or holiday on which banking
institutions located in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close.
1.7
“Certificate” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.4(a).
1.8
“Certificate of
Merger” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.2
1.9
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.10 “Claims” means all
claims for indemnification made by or for a KIT Indemnified Party pursuant to
Article VIII.
1.11 “Closing” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.2.
1.12 “Closing Date” means
the calendar day on which the Closing occurs.
1.13 “Closing Statement”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.7(a).
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1.14 “Closing Working
Capital” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.7(a).
1.15 “Common Stock” means
the common stock of the Company.
1.16 “Common Stockholders”
means the holders of outstanding shares of Common Stock.
1.17 “Company” means
KickApps Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as ascribed to such term in the
preamble.
1.18 “Company Assets” means
the properties and assets, real and personal, tangible and intangible, now owned
or used by the Company in the operation of the Business, including without
limitation the assets set forth on Schedule
1.17. The parties hereby acknowledge that Schedule 1.17 may set
forth certain assets that have been disposed of or discarded in the ordinary
course of business.
1.19 “Company Board” means
the Company’s board of directors.
1.20 “Company Capital
Stock” means (i) the Common Stock and (ii) the Preferred Stock
of the Company.
1.21 “Company Options”
means options and any other rights to purchase shares of Common Stock issued by
the Company to any Person, excluding the Company Warrants.
1.22 “Company Option Plan”
means the KickApps Corporation 2005 Stock Option and Grant Plan (including any
sub-plans thereof).
1.23 “Company Warrants” has
the meaning specified in Section
2.4(d).
1.24
“Contract”
means any contract, mortgage, agreement, arrangement, bond, commitment,
franchise, indemnity, indenture, instrument, lease, license, instrument, note,
guaranty, indemnity, representation, warranty, deed, assignment, power of
attorney, certificate, purchase order, work order, statement of work, insurance
policy, commitment, covenant, in each case, whether or not in
writing.
1.25 “Damages” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
8.1.
1.26 “Deferred Revenue Escrow
Amount” means 76,158 KIT Common Shares to fund the Company’s
indemnification obligations with respect to cover any cancellations or other
liabilities outside the ordinary course of business associated with the Net
Deferred Revenue of the Company, where such Net Deferred Revenue are reflected
on the books and records of the Company on the Closing Date.
1.27 “DGCL” means the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
1.28 “Disclosure Materials”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.6.
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1.29 “Dissenting Share
Payments” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.6(a).
1.30 “Dissenting Shares”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.6(a).
1.31 “E-Fax” means any
system used to receive or transmit faxes electronically.
1.32 “E-Signature” means
the process of attaching to an Electronic Transmission an electronic symbol,
encryption, digital signature or process (including the name or an abbreviation
of the name of the party transmitting the Electronic Transmission) with the
intent to sign, authenticate or accept such Electronic
Transmission.
1.33 “Effective Date” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.2.
1.34 “Effective Time” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.2.
1.35 “Electronic
Transmission” means each document, instruction, authorization, file,
information and any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or
communicated by e-mail or E-Fax.
1.36 “Employee Benefit
Plan” shall mean each ERISA Plan and each other pension, profit sharing,
retirement, bonus, incentive, change in control, equity compensation, health,
welfare, disability, loan or loan guaranty, fringe benefit, vacation, sick pay,
salary continuation, deferred compensation, stock option, stock purchase,
severance pay or other insurance plan, arrangement or practice, whether written
or otherwise, for current or former officers, directors, or employees, which
currently is, or within the immediately preceding six years was, established,
maintained, contributed to or legally obligated to be contributed to by the
Company or by a current or former ERISA Affiliate, or with respect to which the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate otherwise have any liability or
obligation.
1.37 “Employee List” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.9.1.
1.38 “Environmental
Damages” means all claims, judgments, damages, losses, penalties, fines,
liabilities (including strict liability), encumbrances, liens, costs and
expenses of defense of a claim (whether or not such claim is ultimately
defeated), good faith settlements of judgment, and costs and expenses of
reporting, investigating, removing and/or remediating Hazardous Materials, of
whatever kind or nature, contingent or otherwise, matured or unmatured,
foreseeable or unforeseeable, including without limitation reasonable attorney’s
fees and disbursements and consultants’ fees, any of which are incurred at any
time arising out of, based on or resulting from (i) the presence or release of
Hazardous Materials into the environment, on or prior to the Closing, upon,
beneath, or from any Real Property, Former Real Property or other location
(whether or not owned by the Company) where the Company conducted operations or
generated, stored, sent, transported, or disposed of Hazardous Materials, (ii)
any violation of Environmental Requirements by the Company on or prior to the
Closing.
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1.39 “Environmental
Requirements” means all applicable statutes, regulations, rules,
ordinances, codes, policies, advisories, guidance, actions, licenses, permits,
orders, approvals, plans, authorizations, concessions, franchises and similar
items of all Governmental Authorities and all applicable judicial and
administrative and regulatory decrees, judgments and orders and all covenants
running with the land that relate to: (A) occupational health or safety; (B) the
protection of human health or the environment; (C) the treatment, storage,
disposal, handling, Release or Remediation of Hazardous Materials; or (D)
exposure of persons to Hazardous Materials.
1.40 “ERISA” shall mean the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations
and rules issued thereunder.
1.41 “ERISA Affiliate”
shall mean any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of
corporations with the Company within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the
Code, a trade or business (including a sole proprietorship, partnership, trust,
estate or corporation) which is under common control with the Company within the
meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code or a member of an affiliated service
group with the Company within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the
Code.
1.42 “ERISA Plan” shall
mean any Pension Plan and any Welfare Plan.
1.43 “Escrow Agent” means
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York
corporation.
1.44 “Escrow Agreement” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
5.3(a).
1.45 “Escrow Fund” means
the General Escrow Amount and the Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount, held by the
Escrow Agent pursuant to the Escrow Agreement and this Agreement.
1.46 “Exchange Act” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.6.
1.47 “Executive Management”
means those Persons identified in Schedule 1.47 as
Executive Management (members of which include Xxxx Xxxx and Xxxxx
Xxxxxx).
1.48 “Financial Statements”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.3.1(a).
1.49 “Former Real Property”
means any real property in which the Company heretofore held but no longer holds
a fee, leasehold or other legal, beneficial or equitable interest.
1.50
“GAAP” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.3.1(b).
1.51 “General Escrow
Amount” means 528,507 KIT Common Shares, for a period not to exceed
fifteen (15) months following the Closing Date (or such longer period as is
necessary to resolve any Claims pending at the fifteen (15) month anniversary of
the Closing Date), pursuant to the terms of the Escrow Agreement and this
Agreement.
1.52 “Governmental
Authority” means any governmental agencies, departments, commissions,
boards, bureaus, instrumentalities, courts or tribunals of the United States,
the states and political subdivisions thereof.
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1.53 “Hazardous Materials”
means any substance: (i) the presence of which requires
reporting, investigation, removal or remediation under any Environmental
Requirement; (ii) that is defined as a “hazardous waste,” “hazardous
substance” or “pollutant” or “contaminate” under any Environmental Requirement;
(iii) that is toxic, explosive, corrosive, flammable, ignitable,
infectious, radioactive, reactive, carcinogenic, mutagenic or otherwise
hazardous and is regulated under any Environmental Requirement; (iv) that
contains gasoline, diesel fuel or other petroleum hydrocarbons, PCBs, asbestos
or urea formaldehyde foam insulation.
1.54 “Infringement”, “Infringe”, “Infringing” or “Infringed” (whether
or not capitalized) and related verbs mean when used in Section 3.6.2 any or
all uses that violate the rights of the Intellectual Property
owner.
1.55 “Intellectual
Property” means any and all of the following as existing under the laws
of any jurisdiction throughout the world: patent disclosures, patent and design
patent rights (including any and all continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisionals, provisionals, reissues, reexaminations and extensions thereof),
inventions, discoveries and improvements, whether patentable or not; trademarks,
service marks, trade names, trade dress, and all goodwill symbolized by or
associated with any of the foregoing; copyrights, works of authorship whether or
not published and whether or not fixed in tangible form, moral rights,
neighboring rights, performer’s rights, rights arising under any law or
convention granting protection analogous to or in lieu of copyright protection
(including but not limited to for the protection of phonograms); rights relating
to trade secrets (including trade secrets as defined in both common law and
applicable statutory law), confidential business, technical and know-how
information; Internet domain names, World Wide Web URLs and addresses; software
source codes and object codes, databases, database rights, and rights in data;
rights of publicity, rights regarding the use of any person’s name, likeness, or
biography, and rights regarding the use of any video or audio recording of any
person; all rights acquired by license with respect to any of the foregoing; all
registrations granted or pending with respect to any of the foregoing; and all
causes of action against any person for the infringement of any of the
foregoing.
1.56 “Interim Balance
Sheet” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.3.1(a).
1.57 “IRS” means the
Internal Revenue Service.
1.58 “KIT” means KIT
digital, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
1.59 “KIT Indemnified
Parties” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
8.1.
1.60
“KIT Common
Shares” means shares of the common stock of KIT.
1.61 “KIT Common Share
Price” means $15.61.
1.62 “Last Balance Sheet
Date” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.3.1(a).
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1.63 “Law” means any
foreign, domestic, federal, state or local constitutional provision, statute or
other law, rule, regulation, or interpretation of any Governmental Authority and
any Order.
1.64 “Leased Property” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.6.1(a).
1.65 “Legal Proceeding”
means any litigation, action, application, suit, investigation, hearing, claim,
deemed complaint, grievance, civil, administrative, regulatory or criminal,
arbitration proceeding or other similar proceeding, before or by any court,
tribunal or Governmental Authority, and includes any appeal or review thereof
and any application for leave for appeal or review.
1.66 “Letter of
Transmittal” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.5(b).
1.67
“Lien” means,
with respect to any property or asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge,
security interest, adverse claim or other encumbrance in respect of such
property or asset.
1.68 “Material Adverse
Effect” means any change, event, development, effect or circumstance (i)
that is, or is reasonably likely in the future to be, materially adverse to the
business, operations, assets (including intangible assets), liabilities
(including contingent liabilities), capitalization, earnings or other results of
operations, or the financial condition of the Company or (ii) that
would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay or impair the
ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; other
than (in each case of (i) or (ii)), an event, change, circumstance or effect,
alone or in combination, attributable to (A) general economic conditions or
events, changes, circumstances or effects arising out of or affecting the
securities or financial markets generally, (B) changes or events arising from or
as a result of the identity of KIT or any of its Affiliates, the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by, or the execution, announcement or performance
of, this Agreement, (C) events, changes, circumstances or effects generally
affecting the Company’s industry, (D) changes in laws or GAAP or in the
authoritative interpretations thereof, or (E) acts of war, hostilities, sabotage
or terrorism or any escalation thereof or earthquakes, floods or other acts of
nature.
1.69 “Material Contract”
means a Contract which involves or may reasonably be expected to involve the
payment to or by the Company of more than $50,000 per annum over the term
of that Contract, a Contract or commitment relating to borrowed money, a
Contract containing a non-competition or non-solicitation covenant or other
provision that restricts the Business or any other Contract
that is otherwise material to the operation of the Business.
1.70 “Merger” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.1.
1.71 “Merger Consideration”
means $51,500,000 (plus the aggregate exercise price of all vested Company
Options and all Company Warrants) in KIT Common Shares, subject to adjustment
and qualifications set forth in this Agreement. The aggregate number
of KIT Common Shares deliverable at the Closing (prior to adjustments) shall be
determined by dividing $51,500,000 (as adjusted as required by this Agreement)
by the KIT Common Share Price.
1.72 “Merger Sub” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble.
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1.73 “Money Laundering
Laws” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.21.
1.74 “Multiemployer Plan”
means a plan as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.
1.75 “Net Deferred Revenue”
has the meaning set forth on Schedule
1.74.
1.76
“OFAC” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.20.
1.77
“Order” means
any decree, injunction, judgment, decision, order, ruling, assessment or
writ.
1.78 “Other Intellectual
Property” means Intellectual Property used in the Business that is not
Owned Intellectual Property.
1.79 “Owned Intellectual
Property” means Intellectual Property used in the Business that is owned
by the Company.
1.80 “Payment Certificate”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
5.10.
1.81 “Pension Plan” shall
mean each employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(2)
of ERISA which is established, maintained or as to which there is an obligation
to contribute by or on behalf of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or under
which the employees of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate receives any
benefits.
1.82 “Permitted Liens”
means (i) mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens
arising or incurred in the ordinary course of business that are not material to
the Business, operations or financial condition of the Company and that are not
resulting from a breach, default of violation by the Company of any Material
Contract or Law, (ii) Liens for Taxes that are not due and payable or that may
thereafter be paid without penalty provided an appropriate reserve has been
established therefor accordance with GAAP; (iii) Liens that are immaterial in
character, amount, and extent and which do not detract from the value or
interfere with the present or proposed use of the properties they affect; (iv)
conditions, easements and reservations of rights, including rights of way, for
sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar
purposes, and affecting the fee title to any real property owned or leased by
the Company and the existence of which does not, and would not reasonably be
expected to, materially impair the marketability, value or use and enjoyment of
such real property; (v) with respect to Leased Property, Liens (including
indebtedness) encumbering the fee interest title in any Leased Property and not
attributable to the Company; and (vi) the Liens set out in Schedule 1.82.
1.83 “Person” means an
association, a corporation, an individual, a partnership, a trust or any other
entity or organization, including a Governmental Authority.
1.84 “Post-Closing Tax
Period” means any taxable period (or portion thereof) beginning after the
Closing Date and, with respect to a Straddle Period, the portion of such
Straddle Period beginning after the Closing Date.
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1.85 “Pre-Closing Tax
Period” means any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending on or before
the Closing Date and, with respect to a Straddle Period, the portion of such
Straddle Period ending at the end of the day on the Closing Date.
1.86 “Preferred Stock”
means any or all of the Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock and
Series C Preferred Stock of the Company, as applicable.
1.87 “Preferred
Stockholders” means the holders of outstanding shares of Preferred
Stock.
1.88 “Property Leases” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.6.1.2.
1.89 “Public Software” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.6.2(i).
1.90 “RBC Pay-off Amount”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
6.5.
1.91 “Real Property” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.6.1(a).
1.92 “Restriction” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.4(j)(B).
1.93 “Revenues” has the
meaning defined and calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP and AICPA Statement
of Position (SOP) No. 97-2, Software Revenue Recognition and the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 104.
1.94
“SEC Reports”
has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.6.
1.95 “Securities Act” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.6.
1.96 “Series A Preferred
Stock” means the Series A Preferred Stock of the Company, par value
$0.001 per share.
1.97 “Series B Preferred
Stock” means the Series B Preferred Stock of the Company, par value
$0.001 per share.
1.98 “Series C Preferred
Stock” means the Series C Preferred Stock of the Company, par value
$0.001 per share.
1.99 “Severance Costs”
means the aggregate of the maximum severance or termination payments the Company
would be contractually obligated to pay as a result of the termination of
employment of all individuals employed by the Company as of December 31, 2010 or
at any time thereafter up to the Closing. For avoidance of doubt,
such maximum termination payments are set out in Schedule
3.9.2.
1.100 “Stockholder
Representative” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the
Preamble.
1.101 “Stockholders” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in the recitals.
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1.102 “Straddle Period”
means any taxable period that includes, but does not end on, the Closing
Date.
1.103 “Subordinated Debt Pay-off
Amount” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
6.6.
1.104 “Surviving
Corporation” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.1.
1.105 “Taxes” means any
federal, state, local and foreign income or gross receipts tax, alternative or
add-on minimum tax, sales and use tax, customs duty and any other tax, charge,
fee, levy or other assessment, including, without limitation, property,
transfer, occupation, service, license, payroll, franchise, excise, withholding,
ad valorem, severance, documentary stamp, gains, premium, windfall profit,
employment, rent or other tax, governmental fee or like assessment or charge of
any kind whatsoever, together with any interest, fine or penalty thereon,
addition to tax, additional amount, deficiency, assessment or governmental
charge imposed by any federal, state, local or foreign taxing authority which
are payable by the Company.
1.106 “Tax Return” includes
any material report, statement, form, return or other document or information
required to be supplied to a taxing authority in connection with
taxes.
1.107 “Transfer” has the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.4(j)(B).
1.108 “Transfer Agent” means
the transfer agent of KIT, which on the date hereof is Continental Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation.
1.109 “Transfer Taxes” has
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
2.9.
1.110 “Welfare Plan” shall
mean each employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(1)
of ERISA which is established, maintained or to which there is an obligation to
contribute by or on behalf of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or under which
the employees of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate receives any
benefits.
1.111 “Weighted Average
Price” means the average of the closing price per KIT Common Shares for
the period of time specified prior to the relevant date (or event), with a
weighting factor for trading volume, on The Nasdaq Global Stock Market (or, if
the shares of KIT Common Shares are not then traded on The Nasdaq Global Stock
Market but are traded on any internationally recognized stock exchange, which
shall include without limitation the London Stock Exchange (including the London
AIM), the New York Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Tokyo
Stock Exchange, as reported on the applicable website of such internationally
recognized stock exchange (or such internationally recognized stock
exchange which is the primary exchange based on the volume of shares of KIT
Common Shares, if there are multiple such internationally recognized stock
exchanges), or if such website is unavailable, as reported on the website
xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx). In calculating the Weighted Average Price there
shall be excluded any directly placed securities under an S-3 registration
statement or prospectus supplement.
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1.112 “Working Capital”
shall be the working capital of the Company as of 11:59 pm local time on the
evening before the Closing Date which amount shall be calculated as the sum,
accumulated in the normal course of business, of (i) the book value of all
current liquid assets of the Company (including all cash, cash equivalents
(including certificates of deposits, money market account balances, bank account
balances and government backed investment grade securities), accounts
receivable, prepaid expenses, prepaid commissions, and deposits) excluding all
inventory and doubtful receivables (including, without limitation, all
receivables that are more than 90 days old) minus (ii) the sum of all
liabilities of the Company (including accounts payable, accrued expenses, Net
Deferred Revenue, current portion of real estate leases then accrued and
payable, indebtedness for borrowed money, capital leases, contingent tax
liabilities, the RBC Pay-Off Amount and Subordinated Debt Pay-Off Amount all
accrued severance costs through the Closing Date and any other liabilities of
the Company scheduled in Schedule 1.112, in all cases in (i) and (ii) as
incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (in
terms of both frequency and magnitude, except as otherwise expressly
contemplated hereby) and reflected on the balance sheet of the Company as of the
aforesaid date and time.
ARTICLE
II
THE
MERGER
2.1 The Merger. At
the Effective Time, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, the
separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease (the “Merger”), and the
Company will be the surviving corporation (the “Surviving
Corporation”) and a subsidiary of KIT. The separate corporate
existence of the Company with all its rights, privileges, immunities, powers and
franchises shall continue unaffected by the Merger and the Company shall succeed
to all of the rights and properties of Merger Sub and shall be subject to all of
the debts and liabilities of Merger Sub all in accordance with the applicable
provisions of the DGCL.
2.2 Closing; Effective
Time. The closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the
“Closing”)
shall take place (a) at the offices of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, PLLC, 00000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx at such time as this Agreement
is signed by all parties hereto or (b) at such other place and time or on such
other date as KIT, Merger Sub and the Company may agree. As soon as
practicable following the Closing and in no event later than the end of the next
Business Day, the parties hereto shall cause the Certificate of Merger (the
“Certificate of
Merger”), in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit 2.2 hereto,
to be filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware. The Merger shall thereupon become effective as of the date
of filing in accordance with the DGCL; the time of such effectiveness is
hereinafter referred to as the “Effective Time”; and
the date of such effectiveness is hereinafter referred to as the “Effective
Date.”
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2.3 Organizational Documents;
Management. At the Effective Time, (i) the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Company shall be the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Surviving Corporation, which such Certificate of Incorporation shall be amended
to read as attached to the Certificate of Merger, (ii) the bylaws of Merger Sub
in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the bylaws of the
Surviving Corporation, (iii) the directors of Merger Sub shall be the
directors of the Surviving Corporation, each to hold office until their
successors have been duly elected or appointed and qualified or until their
earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the Surviving
Corporation’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws and applicable provisions
of the DGCL, and (iv) the officers of Merger Sub shall be the officers of
the Surviving Corporation, each to hold office in accordance with the provisions
of the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation. The parties hereto acknowledge that
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation, as amended to
read in the form attach to the Certificate of Merger, will be, in all material
respects, identical to that of the Merger Sub excepting that the name of the
Surviving Corporation stated therein, which shall be changed to “KickApps
Corporation” and changes resulting from the removal of information regarding the
incorporation of the Merger Sub.
2.4 Conversion of
Securities.
(a) Company Capital
Stock. Subject to the terms of Section 2.6, at
the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part
of the Company, Merger Sub, or any of the Stockholders, each then outstanding
share of Company Capital Stock shall be cancelled and extinguished, and
automatically converted into the right to receive, upon surrender of the
Certificate representing such share of Company Capital Stock in accordance with
the terms of Section 2.5, the
portion of the cash and KIT Common Shares as are determined to comprise the
Merger Consideration as set forth below in Section 2.4(b), subject to Section 2.4(f), Section 2.4(h), and
Section 2.4(i),
all upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and
the Escrow Agreement, and the indemnification, escrow and other provisions set
forth in this Agreement. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth herein, the aggregate amounts payable with
respect to all outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock shall not exceed the
Merger Consideration. Any outstanding shares of the Company Capital
Stock held by the Company or Merger Sub at the Effective Time will be cancelled
without payment of any consideration and cease to exist. At and after
the Effective Time, and subject to Section 2.6, each
holder of a certificate that represented issued and outstanding shares of the
Company Capital Stock immediately prior to the Effective Time (each a “Certificate”) shall
cease to have any rights as a stockholder of the Company, except for the right
to surrender his Certificate in exchange for the consideration payable, if any,
in respect of the shares of the Company Capital Stock represented by such
Certificate pursuant to this Section 2.4. At
the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part
of KIT, Merger Sub or the Company, each share of Company Capital Stock that is
outstanding and owned by the Company as treasury stock as of immediately prior
to the Effective Time shall cease to be outstanding, shall be canceled without
payment of any consideration therefor and shall thereupon cease to
exist.
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(b) Capital
Stock. At
the Effective Time, and subject to adjustment pursuant hereto, each outstanding
share of Company Capital Stock shall be cancelled and extinguished, with each
outstanding share of (i) Series A Preferred Stock automatically converted into
the right to receive upon surrender of the Certificate representing such share
of Series A Preferred Stock 0.0530627 KIT Common Shares; (ii) Series B Preferred
Stock automatically converted into the right to receive upon surrender of the
Certificate representing such share of Series B Preferred Stock 0.0530627 KIT
Common Shares; (iii) Series C Preferred Stock automatically converted into the
right to receive upon surrender of the Certificate representing such share of
Series C Preferred Stock 0.0681543 KIT Common Shares and (iv) Common
Stock automatically converted into the right to receive upon surrender of the
Certificate representing such share of Common Stock 0.0146258 KIT
Common Shares. Where the aggregate number of KIT Common Shares deliverable to
any Person pursuant to this Agreement either pursuant to Section 2.5 or upon any
release of the Escrow Fund is less than a whole share, then the number of KIT
Common Shares issuable to such Person shall be rounded to the nearest whole
share. The foregoing notwithstanding, with respect to any Stockholder
holding Common Stock at the Effective Time who will receive less than $7,500.00
in total Merger Consideration (including KIT Common Shares valued at the KIT
Common Share Price) such Stockholder shall in lieu of receiving KIT Common
Shares receive cash consideration from KIT in the amount equal to the KIT Common
Shares otherwise issuable to such Stockholder multiplied by the KIT Common Share
Price; provided that the aggregate amount of cash consideration so distributed
will not exceed 15% of the Merger Consideration. Any outstanding
promissory note debt of any Stockholder to the Company will be deducted from the
Merger Consideration payable to such Stockholder.
(c) Company
Options. Each vested Company Option that is outstanding and
unexercised as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted
into rights to receive cash in accordance with this Section
2.4(c). As of the Effective Time, the Company shall pay to each
holder of vested Company Options (each an “Optionholder” and collectively, the
“Optionholders”) an amount of cash for each share of Common Stock then issuable
upon exercise of such vested Options equal to the Merger Consideration per share
of Common Stock less the applicable exercise price of each such vested Company
Option, which shall be the amount set forth in the Payment
Certificate. Such payment shall be net of all required tax
withholdings, the amount of which is also specified for each Optionholder on the
Payment Certificate. Any cash payments made with respect to Company
Options will be reflected in Estimated Working Capital and Closing Working
Capital, as applicable. The Company Option Plan and all Company
Options (whether vested or unvested) will be terminated at the Effective
Time.
(d) Company
Warrants. No outstanding warrants or other rights to acquire shares
of Company Capital Stock or any other shares or securities of the Company
(whether or not exercisable or vested) (“Company Warrants”) shall be assumed by
the Surviving Corporation, and each such Company Warrant shall be canceled or
terminated prior to the Closing. Prior to the Closing, and subject to the
review and approval of KIT, the Company shall take all actions reasonably
necessary to effect the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.4(d) under
all agreements relating to Company Warrants, including delivering all required
notices and obtaining any required consents.
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(e) Capital Stock of Merger
Sub. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and
without any action on the part of the Company, Merger Sub, KIT, or any of the
stockholders of Merger Sub, each share of common stock of Merger Sub issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and
extinguished, and automatically converted into and exchanged for one validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock of the Surviving
Corporation. Each stock certificate evidencing ownership of any such
shares of common stock of Merger Sub shall thereafter evidence ownership of an
equivalent number of shares of common stock of the Surviving
Corporation.
(f) Withholding Taxes.
After consultation with Stockholder’s Representative regarding the amount of any
deductions or withholdings, each of Merger Sub and its agents shall be entitled
to deduct and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this
Agreement, to any Person such amounts as Merger Sub and/or its agents may
reasonably determine it is required
to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the
Code, or any other provision of Law. To the extent that amounts are
so withheld, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes hereof as
having been paid to such Person in respect of which such deduction and
withholding was made.
(g) No Further Ownership Rights
in Company Capital Stock. Subject to Section 2.6, at and
after the Effective Time, each holder of a Certificate that represented issued
and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock immediately prior to the
Effective Time shall cease to have any rights as a stockholder of the Company,
except for the right to surrender his or her Certificate in exchange for the
Merger Consideration to be received by such Person, if any, and except as
otherwise provided by applicable law, and no transfer of shares of the Company
Capital Stock shall be made on the stock transfer books of the Surviving
Corporation.
(h) Increase or Reduction for
Working Capital. Prior to the date of the Agreement the
Company provided KIT with a calculation (the “Estimated Working
Capital”) of the Working Capital of the Company as of January 15, 2011
(such statement, the “Estimated Working Capital
Statement”), prepared from the books and records of the Company and
calculated in accordance with GAAP applied consistently with the preparation of
the Company’s historical financial statements (where permitted under GAAP) (the
“Accounting
Principles”). The Estimated Working Capital Statement shall be
subject to KIT’s approval, which approval is not to be unreasonably
withheld. The Merger Consideration payable at the Closing shall be
increased or decreased, as the case may be, by the amount by which the Estimated
Working Capital is greater than or less than zero dollars ($0.00), with (i) any
increase being allocated only to Preferred Stockholders pro rata based on the
amount otherwise payable to them and (ii) any decrease reducing the payment only
of holders of Preferred Stock pro rata based on the amount otherwise payable to
them. Increases or decreases in the Merger Consideration shall be
paid in KIT Common Shares, with the shares being valued at the KIT Common Share
Price. An example of the calculation of Working Capital as of January
15, 2011 is set forth on Schedule
2.4(h)-1.
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(i)
Reduction for Escrow
Fund. The Preferred Stockholders’ right to receive KIT Common
Shares pursuant to Section 2.4(b) shall
be reduced pro rata (based on the amount otherwise payable hereunder to the
Preferred Stockholders based on the Preferred Stock held by them at the
Effective Time) by the Escrow Fund to be deposited with the Escrow
Agent. The Common Stockholders’ right to receive the KIT Common
Shares pursuant to Section 2.4(b) shall
not be subject to any reduction for the Escrow Fund.
(j) Restricted Securities; and
Lock-Up.
(A) The
KIT Common Shares issuable pursuant to this Agreement shall constitute
“restricted securities” under the Securities Act and may only be sold or
transferred in accordance with Rule 144 thereunder, when, if and to the extent
that such exemption from registration is available to the holder of such
securities. Except as set forth in Section 7.3, KIT is
not undertaking to register any KIT Common Shares issued pursuant to this
Agreement and before permitting any transfer of any KIT Common Shares issued
hereunder may require an opinion in form and substance acceptable to KIT that
such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities
Act.
(B) With
respect to KIT Common Shares comprising part of the Merger Consideration issued
upon the Closing in exchange for Preferred Stock of the Company and for the
Common Stock held by the individuals listed on Schedule 2.4(j)(B),
such KIT Common Shares shall be subject to the restriction that holder and owner
thereof may not make any sale, any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the
purchase of, or otherwise assign, pledge, hypothecate or dispose of
(collectively, “Transfer”) any such
shares for a period of twenty -four (24) months following the Closing Date (the
“Restriction”),
except (i) upon the first anniversary of the Closing, sixty percent (60%) of the
KIT Common Shares received by each Stockholder subject to the Restriction shall
automatically be released from the Restriction, and (ii) as otherwise expressly
consented to by KIT. In all events, Section 2.4(j)(A)
shall continue to apply to all KIT Common Shares comprising the Merger
Consideration. The foregoing notwithstanding, the Restriction shall
automatically terminate if at any time the Weighted Average Price for any 20-day
period is less than $7.80 (as equitably adjusted for any stock split, reverse
stock split, stock dividend or recapitalization of KIT occurring after the
Closing). Except for those individuals listed on Schedule 2.4(j)(B),
the KIT Common Shares comprising part of the Merger Consideration issued upon
the Closing in exchange for Common Stock of the Company shall not be subject to
this Section
2.4(j)(B).
(C) Each
certificate representing KIT Common Shares shall bear the following legends to
the extent applicable to the holder of such KIT Common Shares:
“THE
SHARES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND HAVE
NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “1933
ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR
OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS AND UNTIL REGISTERED UNDER THE 1933 ACT AND ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS SUCH OFFER, SALE, ASSIGNMENT, PLEDGE,
HYPOTHECATION, TRANSFER OR OTHER DISPOSITION IS EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION OR IS
OTHERWISE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 1933 ACT, SUCH LAWS AND THE MERGER AGREEMENT
DATED JANUARY 27, 2011 BY AND AMONG KIT DIGITAL, INC., DEALAPPS CORPORATION AND
KICKAPPS CORPORATION (THE “MERGER AGREEMENT”), AS THE SAME MAY BE AMENDED FROM
TIME TO TIME.
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THE
SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO A RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER
AND OTHER CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS, AS MAY BE SPECIFIED IN THE MERGER
AGREEMENT, COPIES OF WHICH ARE ON FILE AT THE OFFICE OF KIT DIGITAL, INC. AND
WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE TO THE STOCKHOLDER OF SUCH SHARES UPON WRITTEN
REQUEST.”
(D) KIT
shall have the absolute right to give instructions to any transfer agent for its
capital stock to give effect to the provisions of this Section
2.4(j).
(k) In
order to comply with Nasdaq market rules, in no event shall KIT issue a number
of shares of KIT Common Shares under this Agreement equal to or more than 19.9%
of its outstanding KIT Common Shares, determined before the Closing (and
including all related acquistions), and to the extent that by issuing KIT Common
Shares would exceed such threshold or otherwise result under Nasdaq rules that
the transactions subject hereto be approved by the stockholders of KIT, KIT may
in lieu of issuing and delivering any or all KIT Common Shares pursuant to this
Agreement pay cash in lieu thereof to the Stockholders at the address provided
of such Stockholders. The amount of cash will be equal to the number
of shares of KIT Common Stock which would have been issued times the Weighted
Average Price used to calculate the relevant number of shares that would have
been issued to them.
2.5
Delivery of Merger
Consideration.
(a) Merger Sub to Provide
Consideration. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, including Section 2.6, promptly
after the Effective Time, KIT and Merger Sub shall deposit or cause to be issued
and delivered to (i) each Stockholder its share of the Merger Consideration,
less its share of the Escrow Fund, and (ii) the Escrow Agent, an amount equal to
the Escrow Fund.
(b) Procedures. Each
of the Stockholders shall deliver to the Transfer Agent a signed letter of
transmittal in such form as set forth on Exhibit 2.5(b) hereto
(the “Letter of
Transmittal”) together with a Certificate or Certificates representing
its shares of Company Capital Stock together with stock powers executed in
blank. The Letter of Transmittal shall provide that as soon as
reasonably practicable following the later to occur of Closing or surrender of
such Certificate or Certificates and delivery of a signed Letter of Transmittal,
the portion of the Merger Consideration due to such Stockholder (less any
amounts subject to the Escrow Agreement) shall be mailed to such Stockholder as
set forth in the Letter of Transmittal. The Letter of Transmittal
shall contain customary representations, warranties and covenants, including,
without limitations, representations as to the Stockholder’s right title and
interest in the Company Capital Stock subject to the Certificate or
Certificates, legal authority to transfer such Certificate or Certificates, tax
identification information (and status). The Letter of Transmittal
shall acknowledge that (i) no interest shall be paid in respect of any Merger
Consideration delivered subsequent to the Effective Date, and (ii) in the event
of a conflict between the terms of the Letter of Transmittal and the Payment
Certificate, the terms of the Payment Certificate shall govern and control, and
the Stockholder releases the Transfer Agent, KIT, Merger Sub and Surviving
Corporation for any loss, cost, claim or demand relating to any such conflict or
payment made in reliance upon the Payment Certificate. Subject to any
contrary instructions contained in any Letter of Transmittal, KIT shall issue
and deliver stock certificates for the Merger Consideration in the names of the
Stockholders, provided that KIT Common Shares held on behalf of any Stockholder
as part of the Escrow Fund shall be in the name of the Escrow Agent as escrow
agent for such Stockholder.
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2.6 Dissenter
Rights.
(a) Dissenting
Shares. Any shares of the Company Capital Stock held by a holder
who has, subject to Section 2.6(b),
demanded and perfected appraisal or dissenter’s rights for such
shares in accordance with the DGCL and who, following the Effective Date within
the statutory period provided by the DGCL, has not effectively withdrawn,
waived, surrendered or lost such appraisal or dissenter’s rights (“Dissenting Shares”),
shall not be converted into or represent a right to receive a portion of the
Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 2.4(b), but
the holder thereof shall only be entitled to such rights as are granted by the
DGCL (such payments pursuant to the DGCL, “Dissenting Share
Payments”).
(b) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 2.6(a), if
any holder of Dissenting Shares shall effectively withdraw, waive, surrender or
lose (through the passage of time, failure to demand or perfect or otherwise)
the right to demand and perfect appraisal or dissenter’s rights under the DGCL,
then, as of the later of the Effective Time and the occurrence of such event,
the shares of the Company Capital Stock theretofore constituting Dissenting
Shares shall automatically be converted into and represent only the right to
receive the consideration per share payable in respect of such Company Capital
Stock pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement upon
delivery of a Letter of Transmittal and surrender of the
Certificate(s) representing such Company Capital Stock and delivery of a duly
executed stock power, and any other items required by Section 2.5 or
reasonably requested by counsel to the Surviving Corporation.
(c) As
soon as practicable, the Company shall give Merger Sub (i) prompt written
notice of any written demand for the purchase by the Company of any shares of
the Company Capital Stock received by the Company pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the DGCL regarding dissenter’s or appraisal rights and
(ii) the opportunity to participate in all negotiations and proceedings
with respect to such demands. The Company shall not, except with the
prior written consent of Merger Sub, voluntarily make any payment with respect
to any such demands or offer to settle or settle any such
demands. After the Effective Date, the Surviving Corporation shall
solely control all negotiations and proceedings related to such
demands.
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2.7 Working Capital
Adjustment.
(a) Not
later than the one hundred twentieth (120th) day immediately
following the Closing Date, KIT shall deliver to the Stockholder Representative
and KIT a calculation (the “Closing Working
Capital”) of the Working Capital of the Company as of 11:59 pm local time
on the date immediately preceding the Closing Date (such statement, the “Closing Statement”),
prepared from the books and records of the Company and calculated in accordance
with the Accounting Principles. KIT shall make the work papers,
backup materials, and books and records used in preparing the Closing Statement
available to the Stockholder Representative, and Stockholder Representative’s
accountants and legal counsel, at reasonable times and upon prior notice
following the delivery of the Closing Statement by KIT to the Stockholder
Representative.
(b) If
the Stockholder Representative disagrees with the determination of the Working
Capital as shown on the Closing Statement, the Stockholder Representative shall
notify KIT in writing (a “Protest Notice”) of
such disagreement within thirty (30) days after delivery of the Closing
Statement, which Protest Notice shall describe the nature of any such
disagreement in reasonable detail, identify the specific items involved and the
dollar amount of each such disagreement, and provide, to the extent available to
the Stockholder Representative, supporting documentation for each such
disagreement; provided,
however, that failure
to so provide, or the partial provision of, supporting documentation shall, in
no way, have any effect on the validity of the Protest Notice.
(c) If
the Stockholder Representative timely delivers a Protest Notice to KIT, KIT and
the Stockholder Representative shall attempt to resolve any such objections
within fifteen (15) days after delivery by the Stockholder Representative of the
Protest Notice. If the parties are unable to resolve all
disagreements identified by the Stockholder Representative within fifteen (15)
days after delivery to KIT of the Protest Notice, then KIT and the Stockholder
Representative shall each submit the name of an accounting firm that is
nationally recognized in the United States and has not in the prior two years
provided services to either KIT, the Stockholder Representative, the Company or
their respective Affiliates, and one firm shall be selected by lot (i.e., at
random) from these two firms (the firm selected, the “Accounting
Arbitrator”). Each of the parties to this Agreement shall, and
shall cause their respective Affiliates and representatives to, provide full
cooperation to the Accounting Arbitrator. The Accounting Arbitrator
shall (i) act in its capacity as expert and not as an arbitrator, (ii) for
purposes of this Section 2.7, review
only those items and amounts set forth in the Closing Statement as to which
there is a dispute between the Company and KIT, (iii) for purposes of this Section 2.7, be
instructed that the scope of the disputes to be resolved by the Accounting
Arbitrator shall be limited to whether the calculation of the Closing Working
Capital was done in accordance with the Accounting Principles or whether there
were any mathematical errors in the calculation of the Closing Working Capital,
and that the Accounting Arbitrator is not to make any other determination, and
(iv) be instructed to reach its conclusions regarding any such dispute between
the Company and KIT within thirty (30) days after its appointment and to provide
a reasonably detailed written explanation of its decision with respect to each
disputed item. In the event that KIT or the Company submits any
dispute under the process set forth in this Section 2.7, each
such party may submit materials to the Accounting Arbitrator, with a copy to the
non-submitting party, setting forth the position of such submitting party with
respect to such dispute, to be considered by such Accounting Arbitrator as it
deems fit; provided,
however, that the Accounting Arbitrator shall not delay or extend the
thirty-day period for it to reach its conclusions and to provide a written
explanation of its decision. The determination of the Accounting
Arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties and shall be deemed a final
arbitration award that is enforceable pursuant to all terms of the Federal
Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. Sec. 1 et seq. Any expenses relating to the
engagement of the Accounting Arbitrator shall be shared equally by the
Stockholders and KIT and, with respect to the portion to be paid by the
Stockholders, shall be paid for out of the Escrow Fund.
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(d) If
the Stockholder Representative does not deliver the Protest Notice within the
thirty (30) day period specified in Section 2.7(b) above,
the Closing Statement, together with KIT’s calculation of the Closing Working
Capital reflected thereon, shall be deemed to have been accepted by all of the
parties to this Agreement and the Stockholders and shall become the “Final Closing
Statement.” In the event that the Stockholder Representative
delivers a Protest Notice in accordance with the provisions above and KIT and
the Stockholder Representative are able to resolve such dispute by mutual
agreement, the Closing Statement, together with KIT’s calculation of Closing
Working Capital reflected thereon, to the extent modified by mutual agreement of
such parties, shall be deemed to have been accepted by all of the parties to
this Agreement and the Stockholders and shall become the “Final Closing
Statement.” In the event that the Stockholder Representative
delivers a Protest Notice in accordance with the provisions above and KIT and
the Stockholder Representative are unable to resolve such dispute by mutual
agreement, the determination of the Accounting Arbitrator shall be final and
binding on the parties and the Closing Statement, together with KIT’s
calculation of Closing Working Capital reflected thereon, in each case to the
extent modified by the Accounting Arbitrator, shall be deemed to have been
accepted by all of the parties to this Agreement and the Stockholders and shall
become the “Final
Closing Statement.” The calculation of Closing Working Capital
reflected on any such Final Closing Statement shall be conclusive and binding on
all of the parties to this Agreement and the Stockholders and no further
adjustments shall be made thereto.
(e) (i)
In the event that the amount of the Closing Working Capital as reflected on the
Final Closing Statement is less than the Estimated Working Capital, then KIT
shall direct the Escrow Agent in writing to release to KIT from the General
Escrow Amount contained in the Escrow Fund (without regard to the limitation set
forth in Section 8.3(a)) the amount of the shortfall in KIT Common Shares, which
shares shall reduce the number of KIT Common Shares otherwise distributable to
the Preferred Stockholders (pro rata based on the number of KIT Common Shares
issuable to each at the Closing).
(ii) If the Closing Working Capital as
reflected on the Final Closing Statement is greater than the Estimated Working
Capital, KIT shall within three (3) Business Days of the determination of the
Final Closing Statement issue instructions to its Transfer Agent to issue to the
Preferred Stockholders (pro rata based on the number of KIT Common Shares
issuable to each at the Closing) the amount by which the Closing Working Capital
as reflected on the Final Closing Statement exceeds the Estimated Working
Capital in KIT Common Shares.
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(iii) No
interest shall be paid in respect of any adjustment to the Merger Consideration
as a result of the payment of sums in respect of Closing Working Capital as
provided in this Section 2.7(e)
subsequent to the Effective Date.
(iv) Subject
to the foregoing, all issuances or releases from the Escrow Fund of KIT Common
Shares under this Section 2.7 shall be
made on a pro rata basis based on the value of the KIT Common Shares determined
by the Weighted Average Price thereof for the 20 trading days ending on the date
that the Final Closing Statement becomes first not subject to protest herein or
otherwise binding on KIT and the Stockholders. Likewise any
additional KIT Common Shares issued pursuant to Section 2.7(e)(ii)
shall be valued at the Weighted Average Price thereof for the 20 trading days
ending on the date that the Final Closing Statement becomes first not subject to
protest herein or otherwise binding on KIT and the Stockholders.
2.8 Taking of Necessary Action;
Further Action. If, at any time after the Effective Time, any
further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this
Agreement and to vest the Surviving Corporation with full right, title and
possession to all assets, property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of
the Company and Merger Sub, the officers and directors of the Company and Merger
Sub are fully authorized in the name of their respective corporations or
otherwise to take, and shall take, all such lawful and necessary
action.
2.9 Transfer
Taxes. All transfer,
documentary, sales, use, stamp, registration and other substantially similar
Taxes imposed on a Stockholder and incurred by such Stockholder in connection with this
Agreement (collectively, “Transfer Taxes”), if
any, shall be borne by such Stockholder and shall be paid by such Stockholder
when due. Each Stockholder will, at its own expense, file all
necessary Tax Returns and other documentation with respect to all such Transfer
Taxes and, if required by Law, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation will
join in the execution of any such Tax Returns and other documentation. If a
Governmental Authority attempts to impose any liability for Transfer Taxes upon
KIT, Merger Sub or Surviving Corporation, such entity may request, and the
relevant Stockholder shall provide such entity with, evidence satisfactory to
such entity that such Transfer Taxes have been paid by such
Stockholder.
ARTICLE
III
COMPANY
REPRESENTATIONS
AND
WARRANTIES
3.
Representations and
Warranties of the Company. Except as otherwise set forth in
the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, the Company represents and warrants
to Merger Sub and KIT, as of the date hereof, as follows:
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3.1. Organization and
Qualification. The Company is duly formed and validly existing
as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and
has all corporate power and authority to own or lease and operate its properties
and assets and to carry on the Business in the manner in which such Business is
now being conducted. The Company is duly qualified to do business as
a foreign corporation and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which the
nature of the Business or the character or location of the properties owned or
leased by it makes such qualification necessary except where the failure to be
so qualified, whether singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company does not own,
beneficially or otherwise, directly or indirectly, any equity securities or
other securities or other ownership interest of any Person.
3.2. Authority. The
Company has the requisite power and authority to
enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. This Agreement and all other agreements to be executed in
connection herewith by the Company have been duly executed and delivered by the
Company, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action by the
Company (including, without limitation, any required authorization by the board
of directors and shareholders of the Company) and constitute legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their
respective terms subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium, marshaling, fraudulent conveyance and other laws affecting rights of
creditors, debtors or equity holders generally. Except for the filing
of the Certificate of Merger and as otherwise set forth on Schedule 3.2, neither
the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement nor
compliance with the terms and provisions hereof or thereof will
a(a) violate any provision of the certificate of incorporation, by-laws or
other governing documents of the Company, (b) violate any law, statute,
regulation, judgment, injunction, order or decree of any Governmental Authority
to which the Company is subject except, in all cases, such violations that would
not have a Material Adverse Effect under this Agreement or (c) except as
set forth on Schedule
3.2, result in any breach of, or constitute a default (or event which
with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a default)
under any of the Contracts, or give to others any rights of termination,
amendment, acceleration or cancellation of any of the Material Contracts, or
result in the creation of any Lien on the any of the Material Contracts, or (d)
prohibit or materially impair the Company’s ability to perform its obligations
under this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement.
3.3. Financial
Condition.
3.3.1. Financial
Statements.
(a)
Set forth on Schedule
3.3.1 are copies of the following (collectively, the “Financial
Statements”): (i) the audited financial statements of the
Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009, December 31, 2008 and
December 31, 2007, including balance sheets as at December 31, 2009, December
31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 (the balance sheet as at December 31, 2009, the
“Last Balance Sheet
Date”); (ii) the related statements of income and of changes in
financial position for the fiscal years then ended; (iii) the unaudited
interim financial statements of the Company for the twelve month period ended
December 31, 2010, including a balance sheet as at December 31, 2010 (the “Interim Balance
Sheet”); and (iv) the related statements of income and of changes in
financial position for the seven month period then ended.
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(b)
The Financial Statements: (i) are correct and complete in all
material respects and have been prepared in accordance with the books and
records of the Company; (ii) have been prepared in accordance with United
States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) consistently
applied throughout the periods covered; (iii) reflect and provide reserves,
including all known contingent liabilities which in the opinion of the Company
are adequate, including all known contingent liabilities as of their respective
dates; and (iv) present fairly the consolidated financial condition of the
Company at such date and the results of its operations for the fiscal period
then ended.
(c) The
Company (i) keeps books, records and accounts that, in reasonable detail,
accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of assets of the
Company. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company,
any employee, agent or shareholder of the Company, directly or indirectly, has
made any payment of funds of any such entity or received or retained any funds
in violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation.
3.3.2. Absence of Certain
Changes. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.3.2, since
December 31, 2010, the Company has used commercially reasonable efforts to
preserve the business organization of the Company intact, to keep available to
the Company the services of all current officers and employees necessary to the
Business and to preserve the goodwill of the customers and employees having
business relations with the Company. Since December 31, 2010, the
Company has conducted its business in the ordinary course, has maintained its
assets and properties in at least as good order and condition as existed on
December 31, 2010 (other than wear as may be accounted for by reasonable use)
and as is necessary to continue to conduct its business. Except as
set forth on Schedule 3.3.2
since December 31, 2010 the Company has not:
(a) conducted
the Business in any manner except in the ordinary course consistent with past
practices, except as otherwise required by the terms of this Agreement;
or
(b) except
as required by their terms, amended, terminated, renewed/failed to renew or
renegotiated any Material Contract to which the Company is a party or by which
it is bound, or defaulted (or taken or omitted to take any action that, with or
without the giving of notice or passage of time, would constitute a default) in
any of its material obligations under any Material Contract or entered into any
new Material Contract or taken any action that would reasonably be expected to
result in the discontinuance of its material customer relationships;
or
(c)
terminated, amended or failed to renew any existing insurance coverage;
or
(d)
suffered any damage, destruction or loss in excess of $50,000,
whether or not covered by insurance, affecting the Company Assets or the
Business; or
(e)
terminated or failed to renew or preserve any material permits; or
(f)
incurred or agreed to incur any obligation or liability (absolute or
contingent) that individually calls for payment by the Company of more than
$10,000 in any specific case or $50,000 in the aggregate outside of the ordinary
course of business; or
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(g) made
any loan, guaranty or other extension of credit, or entered into any commitment
to make any loan, guaranty or other extension of credit, to or for the benefit
of any director Person; or
(h) incurred
any indebtedness for borrowed money, guaranteed any indebtedness of any Person
or guaranteed any debt securities of any person or entity; or
(i)
issued, sold, redeemed or acquired for value, or agreed to do so,
any debt obligations or equity securities of the Company (other than with
respect to the exercise of outstanding Company Options or Company Warrants);
or
(j)
sold, leased, licensed, transferred, mortgaged, encumbered or otherwise disposed
of any assets or any liabilities, except (A) for dispositions of property
not greater than $15,000 in any specific case or $50,000 in the aggregate, or
(B) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
or
(k) declared,
issued, made or paid any dividend or other distribution of assets or its capital
stock, whether consisting of money, other personal property, real property or
other thing of value, to its stockholders, or split, combined, divided,
distributed or reclassified any shares of its equity securities; or
(l) changed
or amended its certificate of incorporation or bylaws; or
(m) made
special, accelerated or extraordinary payments to any Person in excess of $5,000
in the aggregate; or
(n) made
any material investment, by purchase, contributions to capital, property
transfers, or otherwise, in any other Person; or
(o) compromised,
contested or otherwise settled any claims or threatened, commenced or settled
any Legal Proceeding against or otherwise involving the Company; or
(p) made
or changed any Tax election, made any change in any method or period of
accounting or in any accounting policy, practice or procedure, filed any amended
Tax Return, entered into any closing agreement or similar agreement or
arrangement with respect to Taxes, settled or contested any Tax claim, taken any
action to surrender any right to claim a refund or credit of Taxes, or consented
to any waiver or extension of the limitation period applicable to any claim for
Taxes; or
(q) disposed
of or permitted to lapse any rights with respect to Intellectual Property or its
use;
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(r) other
than as contemplated by this Agreement, made any declaration, payment or
commitment or obligation of any kind for the payment (whether in cash or
otherwise) of a severance payment or other, termination payment, bonus, special
remuneration or other additional salary or compensation to any director,
officer, or other current employee of the Company; or
(r) made
any capital expenditures or commitments with respect thereto in excess of
$25,000 in the aggregate; or
(s)
made any material change in the manner that the Company maintains its books and
records;
(t) adopted
or changed accounting methods or practices (including any change in depreciation
or amortization policies or rates) other than as required by GAAP;
or
(u) made
any expenditures or entered into any commitment or transaction exceeding $15,000
individually or $50,000 in the aggregate outside of the ordinary course of
business; or
(v) revalued
any of its assets (whether tangible or intangible), including without limitation
writing down the value of inventory or writing off notes or accounts receivable;
or
(w) acquired
or agreed to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any
assets or equity securities of, or by any other manner, any business or any
corporation, partnership, association or other business organization or division
thereof, or otherwise acquired or agreed to acquire any assets which are
material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of the Company;
or
(x) adopted
or amended any Employee Benefit Plan, entered into any employment Contract, paid
or agreed to pay any bonus or special remuneration to any director or employee
of the Company, or increase or modify the salaries, wage rates, or other
compensation (including, without limitation, any equity-based compensation) of
its employees;
(y) entered
into any strategic alliance, affiliate agreement or joint marketing arrangement
or agreement; or
(z) other
than as contemplated by this Agreement, hired, promoted, demoted or terminated
or otherwise changed the employment status or titles of any other employees, or
encouraged any employees to resign from the Company; or
(aa) entered
into any lease of, or commitment to acquire or lease, any realty or any
substantial item of machinery or equipment; or
(bb) entered
into any mortgage, pledge or permitted any Lien to be placed upon any of the
Company Assets; or
(cc) entered
into any arrangement or performed any action that resulted in or is reasonable
likely to result in Material Adverse Effect on the Company; or
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(dd) agreed
to or made any commitment to take any actions prohibited by this Section 3.3.2 or
any other action that would be reasonably likely to prevent the Company from
performing, or cause the Company not to perform, its covenants or agreements
hereunder.
3.3.3. Indebtedness The
Company does not have any liabilities or obligations of any nature (whether
accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) required by GAAP to be set forth on
a consolidated balance sheet of the Company except:
(a) as
disclosed, reflected or reserved against in the Interim Balance
Sheet;
(b) for
items set forth on Schedule
3.3.3;
(c) for
liabilities and obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business since
the date of the Interim Balance Sheet; or
(d) liabilities
in respect of the Contracts.
3.4. Tax
Matters.
3.4.1. Tax Returns;
Disputes. The Company has filed, within the time and in the
manner prescribed by law, all federal, and all material state and local Tax
Returns required to be filed by it and has paid all Taxes shown to be due
thereon. All such Tax Returns were correct in all material
respects. There are no outstanding assessments or taxes otherwise due
that if not paid on a timely basis would result, on or after the Closing Date,
in any Liens for Taxes on any of the Company Assets. There is, to the
knowledge of the Company, no pending or threatened United States federal or
applicable state or local tax audits involving either the Company.
3.4.2. Section 168. None
of the Company Assets owned or used by the Company is tax-exempt use property
within the meaning of Section 168(h) of the Code.
3.5. Legal
Proceedings.
3.5.1. Legal Proceedings Pending or
Threatened. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.5.1, there
is no Legal Proceeding pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened
in writing, before any Governmental Authority in which the Company is a party
or which would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely
affect the Company, the Company Assets or the Business. Schedule 3.5.1
sets forth all Legal Proceedings to which the Company is party, or has been a
party since January 1, 2008.
3.5.2. Business
Enjoined. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the
Company, any employee, manager or agent of the Company has been permanently or
temporarily enjoined by any Order of any Governmental Authority from engaging in
or continuing any conduct or practice material to the Business.
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3.5.3. Violation of Law;
Permits. The Company is not in violation of any provision of
any material law, decree, order or regulation applicable to the Company or its
Business, properties or assets, including, without limitation, those relating to
antitrust or other anticompetitive practices, to employment practices (such as
discrimination, health and safety), and to minority business enterprises, except
for such violations which, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. The
Company has all material permits required with respect to the Company Assets or
in the conduct of the Business and the operation of the Real
Property.
3.6. Properties and Assets of the
Company. The Company owns or otherwise has the right to use
all of the Company Assets. Upon consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, the Surviving Corporation will have good and
marketable title to or the right to use the Company Assets that are currently
owned by the Company, free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens,
and with respect to all other Company Assets it has good and valid licenses to
such Company Assets or other lawful rights to use such Company
Assets. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company Assets are
sufficient in all material respects to permit the Merger Sub to carry on the
Business as presently conducted by the Company.
3.6.1. Title to Real
Property.
(a) The
Company does not own any fee title in any real property and Schedule 3.6.1
is a true, correct and complete list and description of each lease of real
property under which the Company currently is a lessee, lessor, sublessee or
sublessor (the “Leased
Property”). The Leased Property and the real property subject
to the Leases sometimes collectively are referred to as the “Real
Property.”
(b) The
Company has a valid leasehold interest in the Leased Property and the Company’s
interests therein are free and clear in each case of all Liens, except Permitted
Liens, which either individually or in the aggregate would have a Material
Adverse Effect on the present use, operation, value or enjoyment of any of the
Leased Property.
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.6.1, the
Leased Property currently is being used only as offices of the
Company.
3.6.1.1.
Assessments. To
the knowledge of the Company, there is no special proceeding pending or
threatened in writing, in which any taxing authority having jurisdiction over
any of the Leased Property is seeking to materially increase the assessed value
thereof.
3.6.1.2.
Property
Leases. True and complete copies of all leases to which the
Company is currently a party respecting any Real Property and all other
instruments granting such leasehold interests, rights, options or other
interests (including all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto) have
been delivered to KIT (the “Property
Leases”).
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3.6.1.3
No Breach or Event of
Default; Property Leases. With respect to the Property Leases,
neither the Company, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other party to
any Property Leases is in breach or default, and, to the knowledge of the
Company, no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time, would
constitute such a breach or default or permit termination, modification or
acceleration under the Property Leases. All of the Property Leases
are in full force and effect and are valid and enforceable against the parties
thereto in accordance with their terms. All rental and other payments
due from the Company under each of the Property Leases have been duly paid in
accordance with the terms of such Property Leases. The consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not require the consent
of any party to and will not constitute an event of default under or permit any
party to terminate or change the existing terms of any Property
Lease.
3.6.1.4
Violation of
Law. To the knowledge of the Company, none of the
Real Property or any condition or activity thereon, any plants, buildings,
fixtures, or improvements located thereon, or the current use, operation or
maintenance thereof is in material violation of any material Law which either
individually or in the aggregate would have a Material Adverse Effect.
3.6.1.5 Location. The
Company does not in the ordinary course of business currently maintain any
material Company Assets outside of the States of California, Florida, Indiana,
New Jersey, New York and Texas and in London, United Kingdom and Mumbai,
India.
3.6.2. Intellectual
Property.
(a)
(i) Schedule 3.6.2-1
contains a complete and correct list of all Material Contracts between the
Company and any third party pursuant to which the Company is required to pay
royalties to any third party in respect of Other Intellectual Property. There
are no Other Intellectual Property included in the works listed on Schedule 3.6.2-1 for
which no Contract exists.
(ii) Schedule 3.6.2-2
contains a complete and correct list of all existing and pending registrations
of patents, trademarks, service marks, and trade dress rights of the
Company. The Company possesses the original registration certificates
for each of the foregoing.
All
registrations listed on Schedule 3.6.2-2 are valid,
enforceable and subsisting. The Company has taken all reasonable
actions with respect to the registration, maintenance and renewal fees in
connection with such items have been paid, and all necessary documents and
certificates in connection therewith have been filed with the relevant patent,
copyright, trademark, or other authorities in the United States or foreign
jurisdictions, as the case may be, for the purpose of maintaining such
items. Schedule 3.6.2-2a
contains a complete and correct list of any actions that must be taken by the
Company within one hundred twenty (120) days after the Closing Date for the
purpose of obtaining, maintaining, perfecting, preserving or renewing such
items. Schedule 3.6.2-3
contains a complete and correct list of all existing Material Contracts pursuant
to which the Company has granted any rights in any Intellectual Property to any
third party.
Merger
Sub and KIT are relying on the Company for the completeness of the above
schedules and any Contract or other item omitted from any of such
schedules will nevertheless be subject to all provisions of this Agreement,
including but not limited to the warranties contained in this Section 3.6.2,
notwithstanding such omission.
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(b) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.6.2-4, the
Company has not received a “cease and desist letter” or any other written
communication from any third party challenging the Company’s ownership or rights
in any Owned Intellectual Property or in any Other Intellectual Property
exclusively licensed by the Company, and to the knowledge of the Company, there
is no action pending or threatened in writing against the Company or relating to
the Business claiming that the Company or the Business has infringed or is
infringing any Intellectual Property of any third party. To the
knowledge of the Company, there neither has been nor currently exists any
infringement of any Owned Intellectual Property or any exclusive license owned
by the Company in any Other Intellectual Property, by any third party including,
without limitation, any employee or former employee of the Company.
(c) The
Company owns or otherwise has a valid right or license to all Intellectual
Property used in the Business. The Surviving Corporation will acquire
all right, title and interest in and to the Owned Intellectual Property free and
clear of any and all Liens, other than Permitted Liens, on the Closing Date upon
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. Except to the extent waived in writing by KIT in its sole
discretion, the Company will prior the Closing have received permissions to
assign all licenses by owners of Other Intellectual Property to the extent that
such consents are needed to assign such licenses.
(d) Except
as noted in such schedules, true and complete copies of all Contracts
indentified on Schedules 3.6.2-1 and 3.6.2-3
have been delivered or made available to Merger Sub.
(e) The
Company has, consistent with reasonable business judgment, taken appropriate
steps to protect, preserve and maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of the
Company’s confidential information and to preserve and maintain all of its
interests and proprietary rights in the Owned Intellecual Property used in the
Business. All officers, employees and consultants of the Company
having access to confidential information of the Company or its customers or
business partners have executed and delivered to the Company an agreement
regarding the protection of such proprietary information (in the case of
proprietary information of the Company’s customer and business partners, to the
extent required by such customers and business partners) and true and complete
copies of all such agreements have been delivered or made available to
KIT.
(f) All
Persons who worked on the creation, development or improvement of the Owned
Intellectual Property have executed written agreements assigning to the Company
all right, license, claim or interest whatsoever in or with respect to any such
Intellectual Property. Without the limitation of the foregoing, all
Owned Intellectual Property listed on Schedule 3.6.2-1 were
or have been created entirely by employees of the Company within the scope of
their employment, by third parties pusuant to valid and binding agreements
designating their work product as work made for hire, and/or by third parties
under such circumstances that their work product is work made for hire of which
the Company is the author and owner as a matter of law.
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(g) The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby will not: (i) constitute a breach or default
under any instrument, contract, license or other agreement governing any
Intellectual Property as currently used in the Business as presently conducted;
(ii) cause the forfeiture or termination, or give rise to a right of forfeiture
or termination, of any Intellectual Property as currently used in the Business
as presently conducted; or (iii) in any way impair the right of the
Surviving Corporation to use (including distribute, manufacture, market,
license, sell or dispose of in any way) any Intellectual Property as currently
used in the Business as presently conducted.
(h) The
use, development, manufacture, marketing, distribution, license, sale or
furnishing of any product or service currently utilized by the Company does not
violate any license or agreement between the Company and any third party or, to
the knowledge of the Company, infringe any Intellectual Property of any other
Person.
(i)
Except as set forth in Schedule 3.6.2-5, no
Public Software (as defined below) (i) was or is used in connection with the
development of any Owned Intellectual Property, or (ii) was or is incorporated
in whole or in part, or has been distributed, in whole or in part, in
conjunction with any Owned Intellectual Property. “Public Software”
means any software that contains, or is derived (in whole or in part) from, any
software that is distributed as free software, open source software (e.g.,
Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models, including, but not limited
to, software licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or
distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to any of the
following: (A) GNU’s General Public License (GPL) or Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL);
(B) the Artistic License (e.g., PERL); (C) the Mozilla Public License; (D) the
Netscape Public License; (E) the Sun Community Source License (SCSL); (F) the
Sun Industry Standards License (SISL); (G) the BSD License; and (H) the Apache
License.
3.7. Insurance. Schedule 3.7
sets forth a true and complete list and description of all insurance policies of
any nature whatsoever currently maintained by the Company, together with the
annual premiums currently payable by the Company under each such policy, the
period of coverage and loss records for the last three insurance
years. The Company has not received any written notice or other
communication from any such insurance company within three (3) years preceding
the date hereof canceling or materially amending any of said insurance policies
and to the knowledge of the Company, no such cancellation or amendment is
threatened. All such policies of insurance are on an occurrence basis
and will be in full force and effect on the Closing Date and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby will not cause a cancellation or reduction
in the coverage of such policies.
3.8. Labor and Employment
Matters.
3.8.1. Employee Benefit
Plans.
(a)
Schedule 3.8.1(a)
lists each Employee Benefit Plan and clearly identifies each as a Pension Plan,
Welfare Plan or other type of Employee Benefit Plan. Each Employee
Benefit Plan materially complies with, and has been established, maintained, and
operated in all material respects in accordance with, all applicable laws,
including, without limitation, provisions of ERISA and the Code, and no event
has occurred in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan which has, will or may
result in any fine, penalty, assessment or other liability for which the Company
or a transferee of assets from the Company may be responsible, whether by reason
of operation of law or contract.
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(b) Neither
the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has an obligation to contribute to any
Multiemployer Plan and has had no such obligation during the six years preceding
the Closing Date.
(c) The
Company or any ERISA Affiliate does not maintain or contribute to or have an
obligation to contribute to any Pension Plan covered by Title IV or Section 302
of ERISA, Section 412 of the Code or described as a defined benefit plan (in
accordance with ERISA Section 3(35)), and has not maintained or contributed
to any such plan during the six years preceding the Closing Date.
(d) The
Company has delivered to KIT and Merger Sub true and correct copies of the
following:
(i) Each
Employee Benefit Plan listed on Schedule 3.8.1(a)
and all amendments thereto;
(ii) Each
trust agreement pertaining to any of the Employee Benefit Plans, including all
amendments to such documents;
(iii) The
most recent determination or opinion letter issued by the IRS with respect to
each of the Pension Plan’s qualification under Section 401(a) of the
Code;
(iv) The
two most recent Annual Reports (IRS Form 5500 series), including all
schedules and plan audits, if applicable, required to be filed with respect to
each ERISA Plan; and
(v) Each
current summary plan description relating to each Employee Benefit
Plan.
(e) There
is no action, suit or claim pending (other than routine claims for benefits) or
to the knowledge of the Company that reasonably could be expected to be asserted
against any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets of any Employee Benefit
Plan. No civil or criminal action brought pursuant to the provisions
of Title I, Subtitle B, Part 5 of ERISA is pending or to the
knowledge of the Company threatened or reasonably expected to be asserted
against any fiduciary of any ERISA Plan. None of the ERISA Plans or
any fiduciary thereof is or has been the direct or indirect subject of an audit
investigation or examination by any governmental or quasi-governmental
agency.
(f) Each
Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the
Code has received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS
regarding its qualification thereunder. To the knowledge of the
Company, nothing has occurred since the date of each such determination or
recognition letter that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect such
qualification or exemption.
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(g) No
transaction or occurrence proscribed by Section 406 of ERISA, or subject to
Tax under Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred or is occurring for which
a statutory exemption is not available.
(h) No
payment has been made nor is the Company a party to any agreement, contract,
arrangement or plan pursuant to which a payment could be made, separately or in
the aggregate (including but not limited to individual employment, change in
control, and severance agreements), which is not deductible for federal income
Tax purposes by virtue of Section 280G of the Code (without regard to the
exception set forth in Section 280G(b)(4) of the Code) or which is not
deductible under Section 162 or 404 of the Code.
(i) Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.8.1(i),
neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, including without
limitation, all other agreements to be executed in connection herewith, by the
Company nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will (i)
result in the acceleration or creation of any rights of any person entitled to
any benefits under any Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) entitle any current or former
employee or director of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to severance pay, any
other payment or give rise to any such payment (regardless of when such payment
is made or payable), (iii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting,
result in deemed satisfaction of goals or conditions, or increase the amount of
any compensation due to any such employee or former employee or director, or
(iv) result in the forgiveness, modification or guaranty of any loan
benefiting any current or former employee or director of the Company or any
ERISA Affiliate.
(j) With
respect to each Employee Benefit Plan and any other similar arrangement or plan
either currently or previously terminated, maintained, or contributed to by any
entity which either is currently or was previously under common control with the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate as determined under Code Section 414 or ERISA
Section 3(5), no event has occurred and no condition exists that after the
Closing Date could subject the Surviving Corporation or the Company directly or
indirectly, to any liability (including liability under any indemnification
agreement) under Section 4975 or 4980B of the Code or Section 502, 601 or 606 of
ERISA.
(k) Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.8.1(k),
neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has any obligation to provide health
benefits or other non-pension benefits to any retired or other former director,
employee or their dependents, except as specifically required by Section 4980B
of the Code or Part 6 of Title I of ERISA, and the Company and each
ERISA Affiliate has complied in all material respects with the requirements of
Section 4980B of the Code and such Part 6.
3.8.2.
Benefit
Obligations. All accrued material obligations for payments to
any entity, plan or person with respect to any benefits for current or former
employees of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate have been timely paid or
adequate accruals therefor have been made in the Financial Statements in
accordance with GAAP.
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3.8.3.
Performance. The
Company has withheld and paid to the appropriate Governmental Authorities or is
withholding for payment not yet due to such Governmental Authorities all amounts
required to be withheld from the employees of the Company, and the Company is
not liable for any arrears of such amounts or penalties thereon for failure to
comply with any of the foregoing. The Company has complied in all
material respects with all applicable laws, rules and regulations relating to
the employment of labor, including those relating to wages, hours, collective
bargaining and the payment and withholding of Taxes and other sums as required
by appropriate Governmental Authorities.
3.8.4.
Compensation. All
reasonably anticipated material obligations of the Company for salaries, bonuses
and other forms of compensation payable to the employees and directors of the
Company in respect of the services rendered by any of them have been paid or
adequate accruals therefor have been made in the Financial Statements in
accordance with GAAP for obligations accrued through the date of the applicable
Financial Statements.
3.8.5.
Resignations. Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.8.5, no
employee of the Company, to the knowledge of the Company, plans to retire or
resign during the 12-month period following the Closing Date or otherwise be
unavailable as an employee of KIT or the Surviving Corporation at compensation
substantially similar to such employee’s present rate of compensation and
benefits and assuming no relocation of such employee.
3.8.7.
Collective Bargaining
Agreements.
(a)
The Company is not, and has never been, a party to a collective bargaining
agreement with any labor organization. No organization effort, demand
for recognition, petition seeking a representation proceeding or representation
question involving any union association or collective bargaining representative
is pending respecting the employees of the Company, and no such question has
been raised with respect to the Company.
(b) There
is no controversy pending between the Company and any of its employees that the
Company believes is reasonably likely to result in an Legal Proceeding or the
resignation or termination of any employees of the Company. To the
knowledge of the Company, there is no basis for any Legal Proceeding of or by
any employee of the Company, and no complaint is pending against the Company
before the National Labor Relations Board or any other federal, state or local
agency. The Company has complied, in respect of its employees, in all
material respects with all applicable statutes, regulations, orders and
restrictions of the United States of America, all states and other subdivisions
thereof, all foreign jurisdictions and all agencies and instrumentalities of the
foregoing.
(c) The
Company has furnished Merger Sub with copies of all claims, complaints, reports
or other documents concerning the Company or its employees made by or against
the Company during the past five years pursuant to workers’ compensation laws,
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 or any other federal or
state laws relating to employment of labor.
3.8.8.
Obligation to
Employ. Nothing in the representations or warranties contained
herein shall be construed as an obligation or commitment of the KIT, Surviving
Corporation or any Affiliate of either corporation to employ or continue to
employ any employee, officer or director of the Company.
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3.9.
Compensation of and
Indebtedness to and from Employees.
3.9.1.
Key Employee
Compensation. Schedule 3.9.1
is a true and complete list of the names and annual compensation (whether in the
form of salary, bonus, commission, pension or profit-sharing contributions or
other supplemental compensation now or hereafter payable) of the ten (10)
highest compensated full-time salaried employees of the Company (the “Employee
List”). Such list also identifies each employee for whom the
Company provides a vehicle, showing the nature of such arrangement and the
annual cost to the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.9.1, since
the Last Balance Sheet Date there has been no material change in the rate of
total compensation for services rendered, including, without limitation, bonuses
and deferred compensation, for any of the employees listed on the Employee
List.
3.9.2
Severance
Obligations. Schedule 3.9.2 is a
true and complete list of each individual employed by the Company on December
31, 2010 and each individual hired by the Company following December 31, 2010.
Schedule 3.9.2
sets forth the maximum severance or termination payment obligation that the
Surviving Corporation would be contractually obligated to pay for each such
individual if they were terminated the day immediately following the Closing
Date.
3.9.3.
Indebtedness to
Employees. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.9.3, the
Company is not indebted to any employee or agent of the Company, or any spouse,
child or other relative thereof, in any amount whatsoever other than for
compensation for services rendered since the start of the Company’s current pay
period generally utilized for its employees and for business expenses, nor is
any employee or agent indebted to the Company except for advances made in the
ordinary course of business. As of the Closing there will be no
amount owed to any Person listed in Schedule 3.9.2 other than (a) unpaid salary,
bonus and paid time off, accrued in the ordinary course of business but not yet
payable and (b) reimbursement for expenses accrued in the ordinary course of
business and not yet payable.
3.10. Contracts and Other
Instruments.
3.10.1. Material
Contracts.
(a) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.10.1,
the Company is not a party to any Material Contracts relating to the Company,
the Business or the Company Assets.
(b) The
Company has furnished KIT and Merger Sub with a true and complete copy of all
Material Contracts.
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.10.1,
the Company is not in material breach of or in material default under any of the
Material Contracts, nor has the Company been notified of any breach or default
under any Material Contracts and no event has occurred that, with the giving of
notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a breach or
default. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.10.1,
the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will not require the consent of any party
(other than the Company) to any Material Contract.
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3.11. Environmental
Liability.
3.11.1.
Hazardous
Materials. Excluding normal and customary quantities of
Hazardous Materials that are commonly used in connection with the operation of
the Business and which were used, stored, generated, transported and disposed of
in accordance with Environmental Requirements, the Company has not engaged in or
permitted any party claiming by, through or under the Company to engage in any
operations or activities upon, or any use or occupancy of, the Real Property or
the Former Real Property or any portion thereof for the purpose of or in any way
involving the handling, manufacture, treatment, storage, use, generation,
release, discharge, refining, dumping or disposal of any Hazardous Materials on,
under, in or about any such property or transported any Hazardous Materials to,
from or across any such property.
3.11.2. Environmental
Requirements. To the knowledge of the Company, the Leased
Property and any Former Real Property, comply, in all material respects and to
the extent the Company has an obligation with respect to such compliance, with
all Environmental Requirements and the Company is not, pursuant to any existing
Environmental Requirements, required to take any remedial action related to any
such Leased Property or Former Real Property or make any capital improvements in
order to place any Leased Property or Former Real Property or the improvements
located thereon in compliance with any Environmental Requirements.
3.11.3. Notice of
Violations. The Company has not received notice or other
communication concerning, and does not have any knowledge of (A) any
violation or alleged violation of Environmental Requirements, whether or not
corrected by or for which the Company is legally responsible, or (B) any
alleged liability of the Company for Environmental Damages (as defined below)
and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no actions at law or in equity
before any Governmental Authority against the Company related to either (A) or
(B) being instituted or filed with respect to the Company. No writ,
injunction, decree, order or judgment related to the foregoing is
outstanding. The Company has not been ordered or requested by any
Governmental Authority to take any step to remedy any condition on any Leased
Property or any Former Real Property whether or not constituting a violation of
Environmental Requirements, and no person or entity claiming by, through or
under the Company has been named a "potentially responsible party" with respect
thereto.
3.12. Regulatory
Approvals. Except for the filing of the Certificate of Merger,
no regulatory approval or filing with, notice to, or waiver from any
Governmental Authority is required to be made or obtained by the Company in
connection with the execution and delivery of, and performance by the Company of
its obligations under, this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby.
3.13. Brokerage. Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.14, neither the Company nor any of the Stockholders
has employed any finder or broker in connection with any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the negotiations looking toward the
consummation of such transactions who may be entitled to a fee in connection
therewith. Any such fees payable to any finder or broker arising from
the Merger, shall be the sole responsibility of the Stockholders and under no
circumstances shall the Company or Merger Sub have any liability
therefor.
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3.15. Bank
Accounts. Schedule 3.15
sets forth a true and complete list of the bank name, location and account
number for all bank accounts used by the Company in the conduct of the Business,
and the authorized signatories and amounts for such accounts.
3.16.
Ownership of Capital
Stock. As of immediately prior to the Effective Time, the
authorized capitalization of the Company consists of:
(i) 75,957,584
shares of common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of which 18,395,787 shares
are issued and outstanding; and
(ii) 11,730,417
shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, 11,677,348 of which are
issued and outstanding;
(iii) 18,458,935
shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, 18,338,242 of
which are issued and outstanding; and
(iv) 17,712,303
shares of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, 17,653,253 of
which are issued and outstanding.
Schedule 3.16 lists,
as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, all holders of stock, options,
warrants or other equity of the Company and their holdings by (including without
limitation the applicable class or series of stock). Other than as
set forth on Schedule 3.16,
there are no agreements, including stockholders agreements, warrants, puts,
calls, rights, preemptive rights, options or other commitments of any character
to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound that (x)
obligates the Company to issue, deliver, register or sell any additional shares
of its capital stock or any securities or instruments convertible into or
exchangeable for any such additional shares of capital stock or (y) could affect
this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. Except as set
forth in Schedule 3.16, the shares of capital stock of Company are duly and
validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and
similar rights.
3.17.
Customers. Set
forth on Schedule 3.17 is
a complete list of the twenty (20) largest (in terms of dollar volume) customers
of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 (the “Top Customers”)
indicating the amounts paid to the Company by each Top Customer for each such
period and the names of the employees (or independent sales representatives) of
the Company who are primarily responsible for servicing each such Top Customer
as of the date hereof. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.17, none
of the Top Customers has terminated or indicated an intention or plan to
terminate all or a material part of the services performed for or orders
historically placed by such customers, and the Company has no reason to believe
that any of such customers may terminate all or a material part of such services
or orders, whether by reason of the Merger or for any other reason. The Company
has received no written notice of, and the Company does not know of any basis
for, any material complaint by any Top Customer with respect to services
provided or products delivered by the Company since January 1,
2011.
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3.18.
Suppliers. Set
forth on Schedule
3.18 is a complete list of the twenty (20) largest suppliers of the
Company by expenditures made by the Company to such suppliers during the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2010.
3.19 Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company,
any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has, directly or
indirectly, (i) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government
officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or
campaigns from corporate funds, (ii) failed to disclose fully any contribution
made by the Company (or made by any Person acting on their behalf of which the
Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iii) violated in any
material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
3.20
OFAC. Neither the
Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent,
employee or Person acting on behalf of the Company is currently subject to any
U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S.
Treasury Department (“OFAC”).
3.21
Money Laundering
Laws. To the knowledge of the Company, the operations of the Company are
and have been conducted at all times in compliance with the money laundering
statutes of applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and
any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or
enforced by any applicable Governmental Authority (collectively, the “Money Laundering
Laws”) and no Legal Proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority or
any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws
is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES OF
KIT AND MERGER
SUB
4. Representations and
Warranties of KIT and Merger Sub. Merger Sub and KIT, jointly
and severally, represent and warrant to the Company, as of the date hereof, as
follows:
4.1. Organization and
Qualification. Each of KIT and Merger Sub is duly formed and
validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State
of Delaware and has all corporate power and authority to own or lease and
operate its properties and assets and to carry on their respective business in
the manner in which such business is now being conducted. Each of KIT
and Merger Sub is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is
in good standing in every jurisdiction in which the nature of their respective
business or the character or location of the properties owned or leased thereby
makes such qualification necessary except where the failure to be so qualified,
whether singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on KIT.
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4.2. Authority. Each
of KIT and Merger Sub has the requisite power and authority to
enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. This Agreement and all other agreements to be executed in
connection herewith by each of KIT and Merger Sub have been duly executed and
delivered by each of KIT and Merger Sub, as applicable, have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action by each of KIT and Merger Sub
(including, without limitation, any required authorization by the board of
directors and shareholders of KIT and Merger Sub), as applicable, and constitute
legal, valid and binding obligations of each of KIT and Merger Sub enforceable
in accordance with their respective terms subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, marshaling, fraudulent conveyance and
other laws affecting rights of creditors, debtors or equity holders
generally. Except for the filing of the Certificate of Merger,
neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor compliance with the
terms and provisions hereof will (a) violate any provision of the
certificate of incorporation, by-laws or other governing documents of KIT or
Merger Sub, (b) violate any law, statute, regulation, judgment, injunction,
order or decree of any Governmental Authority to which KIT or Merger Sub is
subject except, in all cases, such violations that would not have a material
adverse effect on KIT, or (c) prohibit or materially impair KIT’s or Merger
Sub’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement. No
approval by KIT’s shareholders is required to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, including the issuance of KIT Common Shares
comprising the Merger Consideration.
4.4 Issuance of the
Securities. When issued in accordance with this Agreement, the
KIT Common Shares to be issued as part of the Merger Consideration will be duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable and free of all Taxes,
Liens, preemptive rights, all claims, limitations on voting rights and similar
rights of any nature whatsoever, other than those expressly contemplated by this
Agreement. KIT has sufficient authorized equity securities to meet
its obligations to issue KIT Common Shares pursuant to this
Agreement.
4.5 No Violations,
Consents. The execution, delivery and performance by Merger
Sub and KIT of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) violate any provision of the
certificates of incorporation or by-laws of Merger Sub or KIT, as applicable;
(ii) violate, or require any consent, authorization or approval of, or exemption
by, or filing under any provision of any law; statute, rule or regulation to
which Merger Sub or KIT is subject, as applicable; (iii) violate any judgment,
order, writ or decree of any court applicable to the transactions contemplated
herein; or (iv) conflict with, result in a breach of, constitute a default
under, or accelerate or permit the acceleration of the performance required by,
or require any consent, authorization or approval under any agreement, contract,
commitment, lease or other instrument, document or undertaking to which KIT or
Merger Sub is a party or any of their assets are bound. Neither
KIT nor Merger Sub is required to obtain any consent, waiver, regulatory
approval, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or
registration with, any United States court or other federal, state, local or
other Governmental Authority, self-regulatory organization, or other Person in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by KIT and Merger Sub of
this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby,
except, (i) filings required by state securities laws, (ii) the filing of a
Notice of Sale of Securities on Form D with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under Regulation D of the Securities Act, (iii) consents required
under any Contract or Property Lease which is to be assumed by the Surviving
Corporation pursuant to this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby, (iv) the approval of a listing application for the KIT
Common Shares issued hereunder with The NASDAQ Stock Market, which application
was filed on January 24, 2011 (the “Nasdaq Listing
Application”) and (v) those that have been made or obtained prior to the
date of this Agreement.
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4.6 SEC Reports; Financial
Statements. Each of Merger Sub and KIT has filed all reports
required to be filed by it under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities
Act”) and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”),
including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the twelve months
preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as KIT or Merger Sub, as
applicable, was required by law to file such reports) (the foregoing materials
being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports” and,
together with the Schedules to this Article IV of this Agreement (if any), the
“Disclosure
Materials”) on a timely basis or has timely filed a valid extension of
such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration
of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when
filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading. The financial statements of KIT and Merger Sub
included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable
accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of
filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved, except as
may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto,
and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of KIT and
Merger Sub (as applicable) and their consolidated subsidiaries as of and for the
dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then
ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial,
year-end audit adjustments.
4.7 Material
Changes. Since the date of the latest audited financial
statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in
the SEC Reports, (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has
had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect
on the business, operations or prospects of KIT or Merger Sub individually or
KIT and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, (ii) neither KIT nor Merger
Sub has incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade
payables, accrued expenses and other liabilities incurred in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be
reflected in KIT’s or Merger’s Sub’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or
required to be disclosed in filings made with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, (iii) neither KIT nor Merger Sub has altered its method of
accounting or the identity of its auditors, (iv) neither KIT nor Merger Sub has
declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its
stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem
any shares of its equity securities, and (v) neither KIT nor Merger Sub has
issued any equity securities to any company or and of KIT’s or Merger Sub’s
officers, directors or Affiliates, except pursuant to existing incentive
compensation plans or as otherwise disclosed in the SEC Reports. KIT
does not have pending before the Securities and Exchange Commission any request
for confidential treatment of information.
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4.8 Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act. Neither KIT nor Merger Sub, nor to the knowledge of KIT
or Merger Sub, any director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate or Person
acting on behalf of any of KIT, Merger Sub or any subsidiary of either has,
directly or indirectly, (i) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic
government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political
parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (ii) failed to disclose fully any
contribution made by KIT, Merger Sub or any subsidiary of KIT (or made by any
Person acting on their behalf of which KIT or Merger Sub is aware) which is in
violation of law, or (iii) violated in any material respect any provision of the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder.
4.9 Legal
Proceedings
There is no Legal Proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of KIT or Merger Sub,
threatened before any Governmental Authority in which KIT or Merger Sub is a
party or which might affect any of KIT’s or Merger Sub’s properties, assets,
operations or businesses, or prevent or delay the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
4.10 OFAC. Neither KIT,
its subsidiaries or Merger Sub nor, to the knowledge of KIT, any director,
officer, agent, employee, or Person acting on behalf of any of KIT, its
subsidiaries or Merger Sub, is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by OFAC.
4.11 Money Laundering
Laws. To the knowledge of KIT, the operations of KIT, its subsidiaries
(including Merger Sub) are and have been conducted at all times in compliance
with the Money Laundering Laws and no Legal Proceeding by or before any
Governmental Authority or any arbitrator involving KIT or its subsidiaries
(including Merger Sub) with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or,
to the knowledge of KIT, threatened.
4.12 Brokerage. Except
as set forth on Schedule 4.12,
neither KIT, nor any of its subsidiaries or Merger Sub, has employed any finder
or broker in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or the negotiations looking toward the consummation of such
transactions who may be entitled to a fee in connection
therewith. Any such fees payable to any finder or broker arising from
the Merger shall be the sole responsibility of KIT, and under no circumstances
shall the Company have any liability therefor.
4.13 Formation and Ownership of
Merger Sub; No Prior Activities.
(a) Merger
Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. All of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of Merger Sub is validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and
owned, beneficially and of record, by KIT free and clear of all claims,
stockholder agreements, limitations on KIT’s voting rights, and encumbrances of
any nature whatsoever.
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(b) As
of the date hereof and as of the Effective Time, except for (A) liabilities
incurred in connection with its incorporation and organization, and (B) this
Agreement and any other agreements or arrangements contemplated by this
Agreement or in furtherance of the transactions contemplated pursuant to this
Agreement, Merger Sub has not incurred, directly or indirectly, through any of
its subsidiaries, any liabilities or engaged in any business activities of any
type or kind whatsoever.
ARTICLE
V
CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATIONS
OF
KIT AND MERGER
SUB
5
Company Closing Conditions
and Deliveries. The obligations of Merger Sub and KIT
hereunder shall be subject to the satisfaction, as of the Closing Date or the
Effective Time, as applicable, of the following conditions (any of which may be
waived, in whole or in part, by Merger Sub or KIT):
5.1. Permits, Approvals and
Authorizations. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.1, any and
all consents, waivers, permits and approvals from any Governmental Authority,
and of any Person required in connection with the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement or necessary for Merger Sub to operate the
Business substantially in the manner in which it is currently operated shall
have been duly obtained and shall be in full force and effect on the Closing
Date, unless waived by Merger Sub or KIT.
5.2. No Challenge or Violation of
Orders. No Legal Proceeding by any Governmental Authority, and
no Legal Proceeding by any other Person shall be pending or, to the knowledge of
the Company, threatened in writing on the Closing Date which challenges this
Agreement or the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby, or which
claims material damages as a result of the transactions contemplated
hereby. No preliminary or permanent injunction or other order by any
Governmental Authority, and no statute, rule, regulation, decree or executive
order promulgated or enacted by any Governmental Authority, that declares this
Agreement invalid in any respect or prevents the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby, shall be in effect.
5.3. Certain
Documents. Merger Sub and KIT shall have received the
following documents:
(a) an
Escrow Agreement (the “Escrow Agreement”) in
substantially the form of Exhibit 5.3(a) duly
executed by the Stockholder Representative and Escrow Agent;
(b) a
certificate, dated within ten (10) days of the Closing Date, as to the good
standing of the Company and payment of all applicable state Taxes thereby,
executed by the appropriate officials of the State of Delaware and of each other
state in which the Company is qualified as a foreign
corporation;
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(c) except
as waived by Merger Sub or KIT, executed originals or copies acceptable to
Merger Sub and KIT, acting reasonably, of all consents, waivers, approvals and
authorizations required by law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or agreement
to be obtained by the Company in connection with the consummation of the
transactions contemplated and listed on Schedule
5.1;
(d) a
certificate of the secretary of the Company, attaching and certifying true,
complete and correct copies of (i) resolutions of the Company Board approving
the Merger and other transactions contemplated hereby; (ii) resolutions from the
Company’s stockholders approving the Merger and other transactions contemplated
by this Agreement (all as required by the Company’s certificate of
incorporation, bylaws and other governing documents and the DGCL), which
approval shall include the affirmative vote of (A) holders of at least
ninety-five percent (95%) of each of the outstanding (1) Series A Preferred
Stock, (2) Series B Preferred Stock and (3) Series C Preferred Stock (with each
class and series voting as a separate class); and (B) holders of at least ninety
percent (90%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and shares of Preferred
Stock (voting together as a single class); (iii) the certificate of
incorporation of the Company as then in effect; and (iv) the bylaws of the
Company as then amended and in effect; and
(e) a
certificate as to the incumbency and signature of the officers of the Company
executed by an officer of the Company and by the secretary of the
Company.
5.4. Estimated Working Capital
Statement. The Estimated
Working Capital Statement shall have been delivered by the Company to KIT and
shall have been approved by KIT in its sole discretion.
5.5 Board
Approval. The Board of Directors of KIT and Merger Sub shall
have approved this Agreement and the transactions described herein.
5.6 Stockholder
Notices. The Company shall have prepared for each Stockholder
all notices required to be given to the Stockholders either pursuant to the
DGCL, including without limitation, notices of (a) any written consents in lieu
of a meeting of stockholders of the Company approving the Merger and (b)
dissenter’s rights regarding the Merger. All such notices shall be in
form and substance approved by counsel to KIT.
5.7 Opinion of Counsel to the
Company. Prior to the Effective Time, Counsel to the Company
shall have delivered to KIT an agreed upon opinion.
5.8 Resignation of Officers and
Directors. All officers and directors of Company shall have
submitted their resignations in writing to Company with a copy to
KIT. Such resignations of directors (in such capacity) shall be
effective as of the Effective Time.
5.9 Performance by the
Company. The Company shall have performed and complied in all
material respects with each of the covenants contained in this Agreement which
is required to be performed and complied with by the Company on or prior to the
Closing Date.
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5.10 Payment
Certificate. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall deliver
to KIT a certificate (the “Payment Certificate”)
setting forth (i) the name and address of each Stockholder entitled to
distribution of a portion of the Merger Consideration at such time, (ii) the
name and address of each Stockholder not entitled to distribution of any portion
of the Merger Consideration at such time, and (iii) the amount of
consideration (calculated consistent with the terms of this Agreement,
including, without limitation, Section 2.4(a)) to
which each such holder is then entitled, together with any supporting schedules
and documentation (showing the number and type of shares held, any accrued
dividends immediately prior to the Effective Time by each such holder, and any
other information reasonably requested by the Escrow Agent, KIT, Merger Sub or
their respective designees, together with calculations of the amount then
payable to such holder). The Escrow Agent, Transfer Agent, KIT,
Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation and their respective designees may rely on
the Payment Certificate for distributions and shall have no responsibility
or liability with respect thereto other than the payment and delivery of the
Merger Consideration in accordance with the Payment Certificate. Upon
any of the Escrow Agent, Transfer Agent, KIT, Merger Sub, the Surviving
Corporation or their respective designees making each distribution required of
KIT under this Agreement to the Stockholders, KIT shall have fulfilled its
obligations with respect to such payment.
ARTICLE
VI
CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATIONS
OF
THE
COMPANY
6. Merger Sub’s Closing
Deliveries. The obligations of the Company hereunder shall be
subject to the satisfaction, as of the Closing Date or the Effective Time, as
applicable, of the following conditions (any of which may be waived, in whole or
in part, by the Company):
6.1. Permits, Approvals and
Authorizations. Any and all consents, waivers, permits and
approvals from any Governmental Authority and of any Person required in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement shall
have been duly obtained and shall be in full force and effect on the Closing
Date; and the Nasdaq Listing Application shall have been approved by
Nasdaq.
6.2. No Challenge or Violation of
Orders. No Legal Proceeding by any Governmental Authority, and
no Legal Proceeding by any other Person shall be pending or, to the knowledge of
KIT, its subsidiaries and/or Merger Sub, threatened in writing on the Closing
Date which challenges this Agreement or the closing of the transactions
contemplated hereby, or which claims damages as a result of the transactions
contemplated hereby. No preliminary or permanent injunction or other
order by any Governmental Authority, and no statute, rule, regulation, decree or
executive order promulgated or enacted by any Governmental Authority, that
declares this Agreement invalid in any respect or prevents the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be in effect.
6.3. Certain
Documents. Merger Sub and/or KIT shall have furnished the
Company with the following documents:
(a) the
Escrow Agreement duly executed by Merger Sub and KIT;
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(b) a
copy of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of each of Merger Sub and KIT,
authorizing the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Escrow
Agreement, and the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, certified by the Secretary of Merger Sub or KIT, as
applicable;
(c) a
certificate to the incumbency and signature of each of the officers of Merger
Sub and KIT executed by an officer or director of Merger Sub and KIT, as
applicable, and by the Secretary of Merger Sub and KIT, as
applicable;
(d) except
as waived by the Company, executed originals or copies acceptable to the
Company, acting reasonably, of all consents, waivers, approvals and
authorizations required by law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or agreement
to be obtained by KIT or Merger Sub in connection with the consummation of the
transactions contemplated; and
6.4 Board
Approval. The Board of Directors of KIT and Merger Sub shall
have approved this Agreement and the transactions described herein.The Board of
Directors of KIT shall have, effective as of the Closing, (a) appointed Xxxx
Xxxx as the Chief Operating Officer of KIT and (b) appointed Xxxxx Xxxxxx as
member of the Board of Directors of KIT (subject to ratification and/or
re-election at the next annual meeting of the stockholders of KIT).
6.5 Payment of RBC Bank
Loan. KIT shall have paid, or caused to be paid,
simultaneously with the Effective Time all outstanding amounts payable by the
Company as of the Closing under that certain Amended and Restated Loan and
Security Agreement, entered into as of April 21, 2010, by and between RBC Bank
(USA), a North Carolina banking corporation, and the Company, as amended (such
amount, the “RBC
Pay-Off Amount”), which amount shall be reflected as a negative
adjustment to the Estimated Working Capital and Closing Working
Capital.
6.6 Payment of Subordinated
Debt. KIT shall have paid, or caused to be paid,
simultaneously with the Effective Time, all outstanding amounts payable by the
Company as of the Closing under that certain Purchase Agreement, dated as of
July 30, 2010, by and among the Company, the Purchasers listed on Annex I
thereto, and North Atlantic SBIC IV, L.P., as agent for the Purchasers (such
amount, the “Subordinated Debt Pay-Off
Amount”), which amount shall be reflected as a negative adjustment to the
Estimated Working Capital and Closing Working Capital.
6.7 Performance by Merger Sub
and KIT. Each of Merger Sub and KIT shall have performed and
complied in all material respects with each of the covenants contained in this
Agreement which is required to be performed and complied with by each of Merger
Sub and KIT on or prior to the Closing Date.
6.8 Delivery of the Merger
Consideration. Simultaneously with the Effective Time, KIT, on
behalf of Merger Sub, shall have provided irrevocable instructions to the
Transfer Agent, which is also acting as the paying agent, to (i) retain the
Escrow Fund and (ii) issue and deliver the balance of the Merger Consideration
to the Stockholders who have complied with Section
2.5.
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6.9 Opinion of Counsel to KIT
and Merger Sub. Prior to the Effective Time, Counsel to KIT
and Merger Sub shall have delivered to the Company an agreed upon
opinion.
6.10 Management Retention
Payments. The Company and KIT shall have entered into an
agreement with respect to management retention payments for the members of
Executive Management. Such agreement is intended for the benefit of
the members of Executive Management and may be enforced by such
Persons.
ARTICLE
VII
POST-CLOSING
COVENANTS
7.1. [Intentionally
Omitted.]
7.2 Post-Closing
Appointment. Xxxx Xxxx shall be offered the position of
President within nine (9) months after the Closing, provided that he has not
resigned or been terminated for Cause (as defined in Section 7.1) on or
before such date. Xx. Xxxx shall be offered salary and incentive
compensation levels commensurate with such a position within KIT’s existing
executive compensation structure; provided that Xx. Xxxx (or any other member of
Executive Management) shall not be entitled to receive any stock options in
connection with this appointment as the compensation provided in Section 7.1 is
intended to be in lieu thereof.
7.3 Registration
Rights.
(a) Piggyback
Rights. At any time following the
expiration of the Restriction, if KIT proposes or is required to register any of
its common stock or other securities under the Securities Act (other than a
registration relating solely to the sale of securities of participants in a
stock plan, a registration relating to a corporate reorganization or transaction
under Rule 145 of the Securities Act), KIT shall, at such time, promptly
give the Stockholder Representative written notice of such registration at least
30 days prior to the filing of any such registration statement. Upon
the written request of the Stockholder Representative given within twenty (20)
days after the receipt of such notice, KIT shall, subject to the remaining
subsections of this Section 7.3, use
all commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be registered under the
Securities Act all of the KIT Common Shares that the Stockholder Representative
requests to be registered with the securities which KIT at the time proposes to
register to permit the sale or other disposition by the Stockholders (in
accordance with the intended method of distribution thereof) of the KIT Common
Shares to be so registered, including, if necessary, by filing with the SEC a
post-effective amendment or a supplement to the registration statement filed by
KIT or the prospectus related thereto. There is no limitation on the
number of such piggyback registrations pursuant to the preceding sentence which
KIT is obligated to effect. No registration of effected under this
Section 7.3(a)
shall relieve KIT of its obligations to effect S-3 Registrations under Section 7.3(b).
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(b) S-3 Registration
Rights. At any time following the expiration of the
Restriction, if KIT is eligible to register all or a part of the KIT Common
Shares issued to the Stockholders on Form S-3; then upon the written request of
the Stockholder Representative requesting that KIT register on Form S-3 at least
$3,000,000 of the Common Shares, KIT shall, subject to the remaining subsections
of this Section 7.3, use
all commercially reasonable efforts to promptly cause to be filed under the Act
a registration statement (but in no event later than thirty (30) days from the
date of the request) for all KIT Common Shares on Form S-3 (or a comparable
successor form) to the extent requested by the Stockholder Representative,
subject to Section 7.3(c). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if KIT
shall at any time furnish to the Stockholder Representative a certificate signed
by the Chief Executive Officer or President of KIT stating that KIT has pending
or in process a material transaction (including a financing transaction), the
disclosure of which would, in the good faith judgment of such officer and
consistent with the advice of legal counsel, materially and adversely affect
KIT, KIT may defer the filing of a registration statement to be filed pursuant
to Section
7.3(b) until ten (10) Business Days after such condition no longer
exists, but in no event for more than 120 days after the deliver of such
certificate. KIT shall not be obligated to give effect to more than
(a) one (1) registration pursuant to this Section 7.3(b) in any six (6) month
period or (b) two (2) registrations of KIT Common Shares pursuant to this
Section 7.3(b) in total.
(c) Priority. If
a registration pursuant to this Section 7.3 involves
an underwritten offering, and the managing underwriter (or, in the case of an
offering which is not underwritten, an investment banker) shall advise KIT in
writing that, in its opinion, the number of securities requested and otherwise
proposed to be included in such registration exceeds the largest number which
can be sold in such offering, KIT will include in such registration to the
extent of the largest number which KIT is so advised can be sold in such
offering, first, (i) the KIT Common Shares, if any, to be issued and sold by
KIT, (ii) second, any KIT Common Shares having registration rights senior to
those granted hereunder and, (ii), the KIT Common Shares of the Stockholders
(and anyone else have pari
passu registration rights) requested to be included in such registration,
pro rata among all such holders, on the basis of the number of shares of KIT
Common Shares requested to be included in such registration and third, the
securities, if any, of any other Person requesting securities to be included in
such registration. KIT shall not after the date hereof issue
any KIT Common Shares having registration rights senior to those granted
hereunder without the prior written consent of the Stockholder Representative,
which shall not be unreasonably refused, delayed or conditioned.
(d) Obligations of
KIT. Whenever required under this Section 7.3 to
effect the registration of any KIT Common Shares, KIT shall, as expeditiously as
reasonably possible:
(i) furnish
to the Stockholder Representative such number of copies of a prospectus,
including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the
Securities Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request in order
to facilitate the disposition of KIT Common Shares owned by them;
(iii) use
commercially reasonable efforts to register and qualify the securities covered
by such registration statement under such other securities or blue sky laws of
such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Stockholder
Representative, provided that KIT shall not be required in connection therewith
or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent
to service of process in any such states or jurisdictions;
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(iv) notify
the Stockholder Representative at any time when a prospectus covering shares of
the Stockholders is required to be delivered under the Securities Act of the
happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such
registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the
circumstances then existing;
(v) cause
all such KIT Common Shares registered pursuant to this Section 7.3 to be
listed on any United States securities exchange and trading system on which
similar securities issued by KIT are then listed; and
(vi) provide
and cause to be maintained a transfer agent and registrar for all KIT Common
Shares registered pursuant to this Agreement and a CUSIP number for all such KIT
Common Shares, in each case not later than the effective date of such
registration.
(d) Expenses of
Registration. All expenses other than underwriting discounts
and commissions, incurred in connection with registrations, filings or
qualifications pursuant to Section 7.3,
including (without limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees,
printers’ and accounting fees, fees and disbursements of counsel for KIT and in
connection with a registration subject to Section 7.3(b) the reasonable fees and
disbursements of one counsel for the selling Stockholders in an amount not to
exceed $10,000 shall be borne by KIT.
(e) Obligations of
Stockholders. Each Stockholder desiring to have KIT Common
Shares included in any registration subject to this Section 7.3
shall:
(i) furnish
to KIT such information regarding such Stockholder and the proposed distribution
of KIT Common Shares of such Stockholder as KIT may request in writing and as
shall be required in connection with any registration, qualification or
compliance referred to in this Section 7.3;
and
(ii) enter
into any underwriting agreement reasonably requested by KIT or any underwriter
of KIT Common Shares and provide all indemnities reasonably requested by KIT or
any underwriter of KIT Common Shares.
(f) Expiration of
Rights. The registration rights of the Stockholders shall expire on
the third (3rd)
anniversary of the Closing.
7.4 Option
Grants. With respect to all unvested Company Options held by
individuals employed by KIT on an ongoing basis following the Closing (excluding
Executive Management), KIT shall promptly following the Closing issue new
options for the purchase of KIT Common Shares with an equivalent Black Scholes
value to the unvested Company Options. Such substitute option grants
shall have the same vesting provisions as the unvested Company Options,
including full acceleration of vesting in accordance with the double trigger
provision of the unvested Company Options.
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7.5 Employee Benefit
Arrangements.
(a) On
and after the Closing, KIT shall, and shall cause the Surviving Corporation to,
honor in accordance with their terms all employment agreements, severance
agreements, retention bonus agreements and performance cash bonus agreements,
and all bonus, retention and severance obligations, of the Company, all of which
are listed in Schedule
7.5(a).
(b) Following
the Effective Time, KIT shall cause the Surviving Corporation to provide the
employees of the Company who remain employed by KIT or the Surviving Corporation
after the Effective Time (the “Company Employees”)
with at least the types and levels of compensation and employee benefits
(including contribution levels) maintained from time to time by KIT for
similarly-situated employees of KIT. KIT shall, and shall cause the
Surviving Corporation to, treat, and cause the applicable benefit plans to
treat, the service of Company Employees with the Company (or its predecessor
entities) attributable to any period before the Effective Time as service
rendered to KIT or the Surviving Corporation for purposes of eligibility to
participate, vesting and for other appropriate benefits, including, but not
limited to, applicability of minimum waiting periods for
participation. Without limiting the foregoing, KIT shall not, and
shall cause the Surviving Corporation to not, treat any Company Employee as a
"new" employee for purposes of any exclusions under any health or similar plan
of KIT or the Surviving Corporation for a pre-existing medical condition, and
any deductibles and co-pays paid under any of the Company’s health plans shall
be credited towards deductibles and co-pays under the health plans of KIT or the
Surviving Corporation. KIT shall, and shall cause the Surviving
Corporation to, use commercially reasonable efforts to make appropriate
arrangements with its insurance carrier(s) to ensure such results.
7.6 Directors and
Officers.
(a) D&O Indemnified
Parties. From and after the Effective Time, KIT shall cause
the Surviving Corporation and its subsidiaries to fulfill and honor in all
respects the obligations of the Company pursuant to (i) any agreement of the
Company providing for the indemnification of its officers or directors, or (ii)
any indemnification, exculpation from liability or advancement of expenses
provisions under the Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws (the
current and former officers and directors of the Company, and all other persons
entitled to be indemnified pursuant to such provisions or agreements being
referred to collectively as the “D&O Indemnified
Parties”). KIT shall cause the certificate of incorporation
and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation to contain the provisions with respect
to indemnification, exculpation from liability and advancement of expenses set
forth in the Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws immediately prior
to the execution of this Agreement, which provisions shall not be amended,
repealed or otherwise modified after the Effective Time in any manner that could
adversely affect the rights thereunder of any D&O Indemnified
Party.
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(b) Insurance Tail
Policy. If not acquired by the Company prior to the Effective
Time, KIT shall obtain a prepaid “tail” policy (the “Tail Policy”) prior
to the Effective Time, which policy provides the D&O Indemnified Parties
with directors’ and officers’ liability insurance for a period ending no earlier
than the sixth anniversary of the Effective Time; provided that such Tail Policy
can be obtained on reasonable terms within ninety (90) days following the
Closing and the cost thereof shall be included as a reduction of the Closing
Working Capital. KIT shall cause any such Tail Policy to be
maintained in full force and effect, for its full term, and shall honor all
obligations thereunder and cause such obligations to be honored by the Surviving
Corporation. In the event that any of the carriers issuing or
reinsuring the Tail Policy shall become insolvent or otherwise financially
distressed such that any of them is reasonably likely to be unable to satisfy
its financial obligations under the Tail Policy at any time during the term of
thereof, KIT agrees that it shall, from time to time, cause the Tail Policy to
be replaced with another prepaid “tail” policy on terms and conditions providing
substantially equivalent benefits and coverage levels as the Tail Policy, with a
term extending for the remainder of such term; provided that such Tail Policy
can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms (the “New Tail
Policy”). In such event, references in this Agreement to the
Tail Policy shall be deemed to include any New Tail Policy, as applicable. To
the extent that any portion of the Escrow Fund remains unreleased, KIT shall be
reimbursed for the cost of any New Tail Policy from the Escrow
Fund.
7.7 Tax
Matters. The following provisions (which shall take precedence
over any other provision of this Agreement in the event of a conflict) shall
govern the allocation of responsibility as among KIT, the Stockholders and the
Company with respect to the Tax matters addressed herein:
(a) KIT
shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to timely prepare and file or
cause to be timely prepared and filed all Tax Returns of or with respect to the
Company that are required to be filed after the Closing Date (after giving
effect to any valid extension of time to file) and shall cause to be remitted
the Taxes shown as due on such Tax Returns. Prior to the filing of
any such Tax Return for any Pre-Closing Tax Period that reflects a liability
Taxes for which the KIT Indemnified Parties are claiming indemnification
hereunder, KIT shall provide the Stockholder Representative with a substantially
final draft of such Tax Return at least 15 Business Days prior to the due date
for such Tax Return (or, if required to be filed within 45 days after the
Closing Date or the end of the taxable period to which such return relates, as
soon as reasonably possible following the Effective Time or the end of such
taxable period, as the case may be). The failure of KIT to comply
with the preceding requirement shall not relieve the Stockholders of their
indemnification obligations. The Stockholder Representative shall
promptly notify KIT of any objections that the Stockholder Representative may
have to any items set forth in any such draft Tax Return, and KIT and the
Stockholder Representative shall consult and resolve in good faith any such
objection and to mutually consent to the filing of such Tax
Return. If the Stockholder Representative and KIT cannot reach
complete agreement within 15 Business Days (or by the due date of such Tax
Return, if earlier), KIT shall be entitled to file the Tax Return without the
Stockholder Representative’s consent, but the amount of Taxes for which KIT is
entitled to indemnification hereunder shall be limited to the amount of Taxes
that is ultimately mutually agreed to by the parties or, if the parties are
unable to reach agreement, the amount ultimately determined by an accounting
firm that is mutually selected by the parties (the cost of which shall be borne
50% by KIT and 50% by the Stockholders), notwithstanding the fact that the Tax
Return filed by KIT reflects a different amount. KIT shall be
entitled to setoff against the Escrow Amount for any such Taxes described in
this paragraph that are mutually agreed to by the parties or ultimately
determined by an accounting firm, as the case may be.
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(b) Surviving
Corporation shall file a U.S. federal income Tax Return of the Company for the
Company’s taxable year ending on the Closing Date pursuant to Treasury
Regulations Section 1.1502-76(c).
(c) Neither
Kit, Surviving Corporation nor any of their affiliates shall make an election
under Section 338 of the Code with respect to the purchase of the Company
Capital Stock.
(d) Straddle
Period Taxes. For purposes of this Agreement, whenever it is
necessary to determine the liability for Taxes of the Company for a portion of a
Straddle Period:
(i) in
the case of any Taxes other than Taxes based upon or related to income or
receipts, such Tax shall be deemed to be the amount of such Tax for the entire
taxable period multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of
days during the Straddle Period that are in the Pre-Closing Tax Period or
Post-Closing Tax Period, as applicable, and the denominator of which is the
number of days in the entire Straddle Period; and
(ii) all
other Taxes for the Pre-Closing Tax Period or Post-Closing Tax Period, as the
case may be, shall be determined by assuming that for purposes of the
Pre-Closing Tax Period, the Company had a taxable year or period that ended at
the close of the Closing Date and for purposes of the Post-Closing Tax Period,
the Company had a taxable year or period that began at the beginning of the day
after the Closing Date; provided, that exemptions, allowances or deductions that
are calculated on an annual basis (including depreciation and amortization
deductions), other than with respect to property placed in service after the
Closing, shall be allocated between the period Pre-Closing Tax Period and the
Post-Closing Tax Period in proportion to the number of days in each
period.
(e) Except
as required by applicable law, none of KIT, Surviving Corporation or any of
their Affiliates shall amend any Tax Returns of the Company for any Pre-Closing
Tax Period without the prior written consent of the Stockholders’ Representative
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed if such amendment
could reasonably be expected to increase the Tax liability of the Company for
any Pre-Closing Tax Period.
(f) For
the portion of the Closing Date after the time of Closing, other than
transactions expressly contemplated hereby, KIT shall cause the Surviving
Corporation to carry on its business only in the ordinary course in the same
manner as previously conducted.
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7.8 Cooperation. Subject
to any limitations that are required to preserve any applicable attorney-client
privilege, for a period of eighteen (18) months from and after the Closing Date,
each party agrees to furnish or cause to be furnished to the other parties, its
counsel and accountants, upon reasonable request during normal business hours,
after not less than ten (10) Business Days prior written notice, such
information and assistance relating to such party or its business (including,
without limitation, the cooperation of officers and employees and reasonable
access to books, records and other data and the right to make copies and
extracts therefrom) as is reasonably necessary to: (i) facilitate the
preparation for or the prosecution, defense or disposition of any Legal
Proceeding (other than one by or on behalf of one party to this Agreement
against another party hereto); and (ii) prepare and file any other documents
required by Governmental Authorities. The party requesting such
information and assistance shall reimburse the other party for all reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by such party in providing such
information and assistance.
7.9 Nasdaq Listing Approval
Requirements. Section 2.4(k) shall not be applicable to the
KIT Common Shares issued upon the Closing. KIT shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain approval of the Nasdaq Listing Application as
promptly as practicable following the date of this Agreement.
7.10 Further
Assurances. Each of the parties agrees to work
diligently, expeditiously and in good faith to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. From time to time after the Closing
Date, the Company shall execute and deliver to Merger Sub such instruments of
sale, transfer, conveyance, assignment, consent, assurance, power of attorney,
and other such instruments as may be reasonably requested by the Surviving
Corporation in order to vest in the Surviving Corporation all right, title and
interest in and to the Company Assets and the Business and the parties hereto
will execute and deliver such other instruments of sale, transfer, conveyance,
assignment, assurance, power of attorney and other such instruments as may be
reasonably required by the other parties hereto in order to carry out the
purpose and intent of this Agreement and all other agreements to be executed in
connection herewith. The Surviving Corporation and the Company shall
each provide the other with such assistance as reasonably may be requested by
the other in connection with the preparation of any Tax Return, an audit or
examination of any such return by any taxing authority or any judicial or
administrative proceeding relating to liability for Taxes and shall each retain
and provide the other with any records or other information which may be
relevant to such a return, audit, examination or proceeding.
7.11 Run-Rate
Confirmation. The Stockholder Representative shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain a confirmation (the “Confirmation”) from
Xxxxxxxx LLP, within ninety (90) days following the Closing, of the Company’s
annualized Revenue run-rate for the fourth quarter of 2010. If the Confirmation
shows annualized Revenue run-rate for the fourth quarter of 2010 to be less than
$11,000,000, KIT and the Stockholder Representative shall promptly (and in no
event later than two (2) Business Days later) direct the Escrow Agent in writing
to release to KIT from the General Escrow Fund (without regard to the limitation
set forth in Section 8.3(a)) a number of KIT Common Shares equal to four (4)
times the amount of the Revenue shortfall divided by the KIT Common Share Price.
If Xxxxxxxx LLP does not provide the Confirmation within ninety (90) days
following the Closing, KIT may have Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx confirm the annualized
run-rate in Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010, which when determined by
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx will be treated as the Confirmation for purposes of this Section
7.11.
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ARTICLE
VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
8. Indemnification.
8.1. Indemnification of KIT and
Merger Sub. Subject to the terms of Section 8.6, the
Preferred Stockholders (and not the Common Stockholders), severally (based on
such Preferred Stockholder’s pro rata share of Damages covered by this Section 8.1) and not
jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless Merger Sub, KIT and their respective
Affiliates (the “KIT
Indemnified Parties”) in respect of any and all claims, losses, interest,
fines, penalties, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including, without
limitation, settlement costs and any actual and reasonable legal or other
expenses for investigating or defending any actions or threatened actions)
(collectively, “Damages”) incurred by
KIT, Merger Sub or their respective Affiliates in connection with (but without
duplication for) each and all of the following:
(a) any
breach of any representation or warranty contained herein made by the
Company;
(b) the
breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of (i) the Company contained in
this Agreement or (ii) the Stockholder Representative contained in this
Agreement or in the Escrow Agreement;
(c) any
cost, expense or payment with respect to Taxes relating to any period prior to
the Closing, including without limitation all costs and expenses incurred in
preparing Tax Returns which may be properly allocated to such period; provided that, the
identity of the party preparing such Tax Returns and all costs and expenses
incurred in preparing such Tax Returns shall first be approved by the
Stockholder Representative in its
discretion;
(d) any
Legal Proceeding to which the Company is a party at any time on or prior to the
Closing Date, or to which it becomes a party after the Closing Date arising from
facts or circumstances that existed at any time on or prior to the Closing Date
including the Legal Proceedings disclosed in Schedule 3.5.1;
(e) any
broker, advisory or accounting fees and expenses (excepting normal accounting
fees and expenses incurred in accordance with past practice) paid or incurred by
the Company prior to the Closing Date;
(f) any
cost, expense or liability arising from the failure of all options outstanding
under the Company Option Plan at the Closing to be terminated as of the
Closing;
(g) any
cost, expense or liability resulting from the existence of any Dissenting
Shares, including without limitation any Dissenting Share Payments in excess of
the Merger Consideration otherwise payable with respect to such Dissenting
Shares; and
(h) any
cancellation of Contracts or other action resulting in a failure of KIT to
receive any Net Deferred Revenue reflected on the books and records of the
Company on the Closing Date or any out-of-pocket costs incurred by KIT in
connection with such Net Deferred Revenue .
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8.2. Indemnification of the
Company. Merger Sub and KIT shall jointly and severally
indemnify and hold harmless the Stockholders in respect of any and all Damages
incurred by the Stockholders in connection with each and all of the
following:
(a) any
breach of any representation or warranty contained herein made by KIT or Merger
Sub; and
(b) the
breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of KIT or Merger Sub contained
in this Agreement.
8.3.
Limitations on
Liability.
(a) The
parties hereto shall only be entitled to recover under this Article VIII at such
time and to the extent the aggregate amount of all Damages incurred by such
party hereto and its Affiliates exceeds $125,000, provided, however, that this
limitation shall not apply to Sections 8.1(c),
Section 8.1(e),
Section 8.1(g)
or Section
8.1(h). The KIT Indemnified Parties’ sole remedy
for Damages with respect to Taxes (relating to a breach of Section 3.4 or
otherwise) shall be limited to Taxes arising in the Pre-Closing Tax
Period.
(b) Limitations on Amount of
Indemnification by the Stockholders. Notwithstanding anything
in this Agreement to the contrary the total amount that may be recovered from
the Preferred Stockholders with respect to (i) all Claims for (A) any breach of
any representation or warranty contained in Section 3.4 (Tax Matters), Section
3.6.2 (Intellectual Property) and Section 3.16 (Capitalization), (B) any Legal
Proceeding instituted against the Company by any Stockholder relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereunder and (C) the commission of
fraud by the Company in connection with this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereunder, shall not exceed each Preferred Stockholder’s pro rata
share of the KIT Common Shares issued as Merger Consideration to the Preferred
Stockholders (such shares to be valued at the Weighted Average Price of the
shares for the 20-trading days immediately preceding the date a notice of claim
is delivered); provided, that such limitation shall not apply to claims against
any Preferred Stockholder for (x) its fraud or (y) any failure by such Preferred
Stockholder to have title to (and the legal right to transfer) any Company
Capital Stock purported to be sold, transferred or delivered pursuant to this
Agreement or a Letter of Transmittal and (ii) all Claims subject to Section 8.1(h) shall
not exceed the Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount.
8.4. Survival. Any
claim for indemnification shall survive the Closing for a period of fifteen (15)
months following the Closing; provided that any Claims subject to Section 8.1(h) shall
survive for twenty-four (24) months following the Closing. Any claim
for indemnification shall survive the applicable termination date if a party,
prior to such termination date, shall have advised the other party in writing of
facts that constitute or may give rise to an alleged claim for indemnification,
specifying in reasonable detail the basis under this Agreement for such
claim.
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8.5. Defense by the Indemnifying
Party. In connection with any claim giving rise to indemnity
hereunder resulting from or arising out of any Legal Proceeding by a person
other than the indemnified party, the indemnifying party shall have the right to
participate in or at its sole cost and expense may, upon written notice to the
indemnified party received by the indemnified party within 10 calendar days
after the indemnifying parties receipt of notice of such claim, assume the
defense of any such Legal Proceeding. If the indemnifying party
assumes the defense of any such Legal Proceeding, the indemnifying party shall
select counsel reasonably acceptable to the indemnified party to conduct the
defense of such Legal Proceedings and at its sole cost and expense shall take
all steps reasonably necessary in the defense or settlement
thereof. The indemnifying party shall not consent to a settlement of,
or the entry of any judgment arising from, any such Legal Proceeding, without
the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld) unless the indemnifying party admits in writing its
liability and agrees to hold the indemnified party harmless from and against any
losses, damages, expenses and liabilities arising out of such
settlement. The indemnified party shall be entitled to participate in
(but not control) the defense of any such action, with its own counsel and at
its own expense and shall be entitled to any and all information and
documentation relating thereto. If the indemnifying party does not
assume (or continue to diligently and competently prosecute) the defense of any
such Legal Proceeding resulting therefrom in accordance with the terms hereof,
the indemnified party may defend against such Legal Proceeding in such manner as
it may deem appropriate, including, but not limited to, settling such Legal
Proceeding, after giving reasonable advance notice of the same to the
indemnifying party, on such terms as the indemnified party may deem
appropriate.
8.6. Notice. The
parties hereto agree that in the event of any occurrence which may give rise to
a claim by an indemnified party hereunder the indemnified party will give prompt
notice thereof to the indemnifying party within 15 days after learning of such
claim (or within such shorter time as may be necessary to give the indemnifying
party a reasonable opportunity to respond to such claim); provided, however that
failure to timely give the notice provided in this Article VIII shall not be a
defense to the liability of the indemnifying party for such claim to the extent
it is not prejudiced, but the indemnifying party may recover any actual damages
arising from the indemnified party’s failure to give such timely
notice.
8.7. Waiver. The
indemnified party agrees that it will not waive any statute of limitations or
defense that would increase the liability of the indemnifying party hereunder
without (except in connection with pending Legal Proceeding in which the
indemnifying party has not assumed or elected to participate in the defense) the
consent of the indemnifying party.
8.8 Indemnification
Source.
(a) The
right to indemnification set forth in this Article VIII shall be the sole and
exclusive remedy following the Closing Date for any breaches of the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements under this Agreement, and,
subject to Section 8.3(b) and this Section 8.8, the Escrow Fund shall be the
sole source of funds or KIT Common Shares available in satisfaction
thereof. All claims of indemnification shall be collected first from
the Escrow Fund before collecting any amounts directly from Preferred
Stockholders; provided that this limitation shall not apply to any Preferred
Stockholder where the Claim relates to fraud by such Preferred Stockholder or
any failure by such Preferred Stockholder to have title to (and the legal right
to transfer) any Company Capital Stock purported to be sold, transferred or
delivered pursuant to this Agreement or a Letter of Transmittal. Any
payment made to a KIT Indemnified Party from the Escrow Fund to satisfy a claim
for indemnification pursuant to this Article VIII shall be treated as an
adjustment to the Merger Consideration. In no event shall any
Preferred Stockholder be required to defend, indemnify or hold harmless any KIT
Indemnified Party or the Company for any breach of any representation, warranty
or covenant of any other Stockholder. In no event shall the term
“Damages” cover or include consequential, incidental, indirect, special or
punitive damages.
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(b) To
the extent that there (I) are no outstanding claims against the Escrow Fund
(other than claims against the Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount), or (II) are claims
outstanding against the Escrow Fund, (other than claims against the Deferred
Revenue Escrow Amount) that, together with the reasonably anticipatable fees and
expenses of resolving such claims, are in aggregate less than the balance of the
General Escrow Amount on that date which is fifteen months from the Closing Date
(the “Available
Excess”), then promptly on and after such date the balance of the General
Escrow Amount (in the event of subsection (I) or the Available Excess (in the
event of subsection (II)) shall be released from the Escrow Fund and delivered
to the Preferred Stockholders. Thereafter, upon final settlement of
all claims made against the Escrow Fund, any such excess then remaining in the
Escrow Fund, together with any earnings thereon, shall be promptly released to
the Preferred Stockholders. KIT hereby agrees that it shall, together
with the Stockholder Representative, provide instructions to the Escrow Agent
(x) to release the balance of the General Escrow Amount held in the Escrow Fund
or the Available Excess, as applicable, and to (y) release any excess thereof
remaining in the Escrow Fund upon final settlement of all claims made against
the Escrow Fund, each in accordance with this Section 8.8 and
Section 3.2 of the Escrow Agreement.
(c) The
Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount shall be released from the Escrow Fund
on a quarterly basis (within 45-days following the end of any calendar quarter)
to the extent that Net Deferred Revenue included in the Deferred Revenue Escrow
Amount have been earned by KIT or its subsidiaries. Any portion of
the Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount remaining in the Escrow Fund on the 24-month
anniversary of the Closing shall be released to the Preferred Stockholders
provided that the remaining Net Deferred Revenue balance subject to such Escrow
Amount (after adjusting for any Claims subject to Section 8.1(h)) do
not exceed $100,000 and if such Net Deferred Revenue balance does exceed
$100,000 the remaining balance of the Deferred Revenue Escrow Amount shall be
delivered to KIT.
8.9 Valuation of Escrow
Fund. With respect to each claim
subject to indemnification, the following process shall be used:
(a) KIT
Common Shares held in escrow shall be used first with the number of shares
required for the claim being calculated as follows: the amount of the claim
divided by the Weighted Average Price of the shares for the 20-trading days
immediately preceding the date a notice of claim is delivered in respect of a
claim under the indemnity.
(b) Any
KIT Common Shares remaining, following satisfaction of all indemnity claims,
shall be distributed upon the expiration of the applicable escrow
period.
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ARTICLE
IX
STOCKHOLDER
REPRESENTATIVE
9.1 Stockholder
Representative. By virtue of the approval of the Merger and this
Agreement by the requisite vote of the Preferred Stockholders, each Preferred
Stockholder shall be deemed to have agreed to appoint the Stockholder
Representative as its agent and attorney-in-fact, for and on behalf of the
Preferred Stockholders, as the Stockholder Representative, as its agent and
attorney-in-fact, as the Stockholder Representative for and on behalf of the
Preferred Stockholders, to take any action and all actions which it
believes are necessary or appropriate pursuant to or in connection with this
Agreement and the Escrow Agreement, to give and receive notices and
communications, to authorize payment to any KIT Indemnified Parties in
satisfaction of claims by any such KIT Indemnified Parties, to object to
payments from the Escrow Fund, to agree to, negotiate, enter into settlements
and compromises of, and demand arbitration and comply with orders of courts and
awards of arbitrators with respect to such claims, and to take all other actions
with respect to such claims that are either (i) necessary or appropriate in
the judgment of the Stockholder Representative for the accomplishment of the
foregoing or (ii) specifically mandated by the terms of this Agreement
including engaging counsel and such accountants or other advisors and incur
expenses in connection with this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement as the
Stockholder Representative may in its sole discretion deem
appropriate. Such agency may be changed by Preferred Stockholders who
held a majority of the Capital Stock of the Company immediately prior to the
Effective Time (calculated on an as-converted to Common Stock basis, voting
together as a single class) (such Preferred Stockholders, collectively the
“Majority Stockholders”) at any time or from time to time upon not less than
thirty (30) days prior written notice to KIT, and the Stockholder Representative
may not be removed unless the Majority Stockholders agree to such removal and to
the identity of the substituted agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Stockholder Representative may resign at any time on notice to KIT, and a
replacement Stockholder Representative shall be elected by those Preferred
Stockholders who held a majority of the Capital Stock of the Company outstanding
immediately prior to the Effective Time (determined on an
as-converted to Common Stock basis, voting together as a single class);
provided, further, that any successor Stockholder Representative, shall not
resign until and unless a successor Stockholder Representative shall have been
appointed. The foregoing notwithstanding any replacement or successor
Stockholder Representative shall be subject to the approval of KIT, which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. No bond shall be
required of the Stockholder Representative, and the Stockholder Representative
shall not receive any compensation for his services. Written notices
or communications to or from the Stockholder Representative shall constitute
notice to or from the Preferred Stockholders.
9.3 The
Stockholder Representative shall not be liable to any Preferred Stockholders for
any act done or omitted hereunder as Stockholder Representative. The Preferred
Stockholders shall indemnify the Stockholder Representative and hold the
Stockholder Representative harmless against any loss, liability or expense
incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on the part of the Stockholder
Representative and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the Stockholder Representative’s duties hereunder, including
the reasonable fees and expenses of any legal counsel retained by the
Stockholder Representative. Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.1, a
decision, act, consent or instruction of the Stockholder Representative with
respect to an indemnification claim, including but not limited to an amendment,
extension or waiver of this Agreement, shall constitute a decision of the
Preferred Stockholders and shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the
Preferred Stockholders; and KIT, Merger Sub and the Escrow Agent may rely upon
any such decision, act, consent or instruction of the Stockholder Representative
as being the decision, act, consent or instruction of the Preferred
Stockholders. Each of KIT and the Escrow Agent is hereby relieved
from any liability to any person for any decision, act, consent or instruction
of the Stockholder Representative that is authorized pursuant to this Section
9.3.
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ARTICLE
X
MISCELLANEOUS
10. Miscellaneous
Provisions.
10.1.
Jurisdiction; Agent for
Service. The parties hereto irrevocably agree that any Legal
Proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be brought
exclusively in the federal courts, or in the absence of federal jurisdiction in
state courts, in either case in the Borough of Manhattan. The parties
hereto irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the jurisdiction of such courts
and agree to take any and all future action necessary to submit to the
jurisdiction of such courts. The parties hereto irrevocably waive any
objection that they now have or hereafter may have to the laying of venue of any
Legal Proceeding brought in any such court and further irrevocably waive any
claim that any such Legal Proceeding brought in any such court has been brought
in an inconvenient forum. Final judgment against any of the parties
hereto in any such suit shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment, a certified or true copy of which shall
be conclusive evidence of the fact and the amount of any indebtedness or
liability of such party therein described, or by appropriate proceedings under
any applicable treaty or otherwise.
10.2. Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in
accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York without giving
effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State
of New York or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the
laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York; provided, that those
provisions hereof that are required to be governed by the DGCL, including all
provisions related to the effectuation of the Merger, shall be governed by the
DGCL.
10.3.
Notices. All
notices, requests, demands and other communications called for or contemplated
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when
delivered to the party to whom addressed or when sent by telegram, telex or wire
(if promptly confirmed by registered or certified mail, return receipt
requested, prepaid and addressed) to the parties, their successors in interest,
or their assignees at the following addresses, or at such other addresses as the
parties may designate by written notice in the manner
aforesaid:
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If
to KIT or Merger Sub:
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0xx Xxx, Xxxxx 000
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
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Facsimile: x0
(000) 000-0000
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Email: xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
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with
a copy (which will not constitute notice) to:
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Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxx, PLLC
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00000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Facsimile:
000-000-0000
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Email: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If
to the Company:
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KickApps
Corporation
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Attn:
Xxxx Xxxx, CEO
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00
X. 00xx
Xxxxxx
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0xx
Xxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
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Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
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Email: xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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With
a copy to:
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Xxxxxxx
Procter LLP
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Attn:
Xxxx X. Xxxx III
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00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
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Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
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Email: xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If
to the Stockholder Representative:
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Name: Prism
VentureWorks
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Address: 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
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Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Attention: Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
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Email: XXxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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With
a copy to:
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Name:
Prism Venture Works
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Address:
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
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Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Attn:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
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Email: XXxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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10.4.
Payment of
Expenses. Whether or not the Merger is consummated, (i) all
fees and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with the Merger and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, all legal fees,
shall be paid by the Company and and (ii) all fees and expenses incurred by KIT,
any of its subsidiaries or Merger Sub in connection with the Merger and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, all legal fees,
shall be paid by KIT.
10.5.
Assignment. Neither
this Agreement nor any right, remedy, obligation or liability arising hereunder
or by reason hereof nor any of the documents executed in connection herewith may
be assigned by any party without the consent of the other parties hereto except
that Merger Sub shall have the right to assign all of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement to one of its Affiliates if such transferee corporation
agrees to assume all of Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement, provided
that such transfer shall not discharge Merger Sub from its obligation herewith
unless the Company consents to such discharge, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld. Nothing contained herein, expressed or
implied, is intended to confer upon any person or entity other than the parties
hereto and their successors in interest and permitted assignees any rights or
remedies under or by reason of this Agreement unless so stated herein to the
contrary.
10.6.
Amendments and
Waiver. This Agreement and all Exhibits and Schedules hereto
may be modified only by a written instrument duly executed by each
party. Except as herein expressly provided to the contrary, no breach
of any covenant, agreement, warranty or representation shall be deemed waived
unless expressly waived in writing by the party who might assert such
breach.
10.7.
Survival. The
covenants, agreements, warranties and representations entered into or made
pursuant to this Agreement, irrespective of any investigation made by or on
behalf of any party, shall be continuing and shall survive the Closing Date for
a period through and including the last day upon which an indemnified party may
seek indemnification for a breach of such covenant, agreement, warranty or
representation under Section 8.2.
10.8.
Counterparts. This
Agreement and any waiver or amendment hereto may be executed in counterparts and
by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed
and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute
one and the same document. This Agreement and any waiver or amendment
hereto may be executed and delivered by telecopier, other facsimile
transmission, or E-Signature, all with the same force and effect as if the same
was a fully executed and delivered original manual
counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement
and any waiver or amendment hereto by facsimile transmission or Electronic
Transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart
hereof.
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10.9.
Headings. Headings
in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed to
have any substantive effect.
10.10. Attorneys’
Fees. In the event that any Legal Proceeding, including
arbitration, is commenced by any party hereto for the purpose of enforcing any
provision of this Agreement, the parties to such Legal Proceeding may receive as
part of any award, judgment, decision or other resolution of such Legal
Proceeding their costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees as determined by the
person or body making such award, judgment, decision or
resolution. Should any claim hereunder be settled short of the
commencement of any such Legal Proceeding, the parties in such settlement shall
be entitled to include as part of the damages alleged to have been incurred
reasonable costs of attorneys or other professionals in investigating or
counseling on such Legal Proceeding.
10.11. Binding Nature of
Agreement. All of the terms and provisions of this Agreement
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective executors, heirs, legal representations, successors and permitted
assigns.
10.12. Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement which is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction will, as to that jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such
invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability, without affecting in any way the
remaining provisions hereof in such jurisdiction or rendering that or any other
provision of this Agreement invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any other
jurisdiction.
10.13. Specific
Performance. Each party acknowledges that it will have no
adequate remedy at law and may suffer irreparable damage if another party
breaches any covenant contained in this Agreement. Accordingly, the
parties agree that they each shall have the right, in addition to any other
rights which it may have, to specific performance and equitable injunctive
relief if another party shall fail or threaten to fail to perform any of its
obligations under this Agreement.
10.14. Construction and Complete
Agreement.
(a) The
use in this Agreement of the term “including” means
“including, without
limitation.” The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other
words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole, including the
Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits, as the same may from time to time be amended,
modified, supplemented or restated, and not to any particular section,
subsection, paragraph, subparagraph or clause contained in this
Agreement. The term “dollars” and the symbol “$” refer to lawful
currency of the United States. All references to Sections, Annexes,
Schedules and Exhibits mean the Sections of this Agreement and the Annexes,
Schedules and Exhibits attached to this Agreement, except where otherwise
stated. The use herein of the masculine, feminine or neuter forms
shall also denote the other forms, as in each case the context may require or
permit. The use of the singular or plural form of words herein shall
not limit any provision of this Agreement. Where specific language is
used to clarify by example a general statement contained herein, such specific
language shall not be deemed to modify, limit or restrict in any manner the
construction of the general statement to which it relates. Any matter
set forth on a Schedule to this Agreement shall be deemed to be set forth on all
other Schedules to this Agreement to which such fact or item may reasonably
apply so long as such disclosure is in sufficient detail to such that it is
readily apparent to a party the other representations or warranties to which
such facts or items applies.
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(b) This
Agreement, the Exhibits and Schedules hereto and the documents delivered or to
be delivered pursuant to this Agreement contain or will contain the entire
agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the transactions
contemplated herein and shall supersede all previous oral and written and all
contemporaneous oral negotiations, commitments, and
understandings. The Schedules and Exhibits hereto are incorporated by
reference.
10.15 No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of
and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended
to or shall confer upon any Person other than the parties hereto or their
respective successors and assigns, any rights, remedies or liabilities under or
by reason of this Agreement other than Article VII (which is intended to be for
the benefit of Persons covered thereby and may be enforced by such Persons),
Article VIII (which is intended to be for the benefit of Persons covered thereby
and may be enforced by such Persons) or unless so stated herein to the
contrary.
10.16.
Knowledge of the
Company. With respect to any representation, warranty or
statement contained in this Agreement that is made to the knowledge of the
Company, it is expressly understood and agreed that such knowledge shall be the
actual knowledge of Xxxx Xxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxx and they shall also be deemed to
have knowledge of any facts that any such individual would have upon reasonable
investigation.
10.17.
Drafting
Presumption. The parties hereto agree that they participated
in the drafting of this Agreement and, in the event that any dispute arises in
the interpretation or construction of this agreement, no presumption shall arise
that any one party drafted this Agreement.
10.18.
Special. The
parties hereto agree that all conditions to the Closing contained in Article V
and Article VI have been satisfied, except having obtained approval of the
Nasdaq Listing Application from Nasdaq in accordance with the last clause of
Section 6.1; provided, that if such approval is not obtained on or before
February 11, 2011, either the Company or KIT may terminate this
Agreement upon written notice.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement and Plan of
Merger on the date first written above.
By:
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/s/ Kaleil Xxxxx Tuzman
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Name:
Kaleil Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Title:
CEO
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DEALAPPS
CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ Kaleil Xxxxx Tuzman
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Name: Kaleil
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Title: CEO
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KICKAPPS
CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxx
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Name: Xxxx
Xxxx
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Title: Chief
Executive Officer
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For
Purposes of Articles II, VII, VIII and IX Only,
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/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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XXXXXX
X. XXXXXX
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(Signature
Page to Merger Agreement)